Lexical and semantic features of anthroponyms in the poem “Greetings to Heydar Baba” by Mohammad Hossein Shahriar

Seyyed Mohammad Hossein Behjat Tabrizi, who wrote his poems under the name “Shahriar”, is one of those poets popular both in Persian and Turkish poetry. His poetry having great moral power is a national and cultural heritage of the Azerbaijani people. Shahriar's creativity characterized by its versatility and brilliance is a whole poetic world that defined the development of literature on a new stage. In his works Shahriar tried to solve not only universal problems but the poet also acted as a herald of progressive ideas of his time. The skill of the poet developed on the basis of Turkish and Persian-speaking traditions. Shahriar's poem “Greetings to Heydar Baba” (Heydar Babaya Salam) written in Azerbaijan language is considered to be the top of his creative activity. The poem is not only a masterpiece of Azerbaijani literature but at the same time it is one of the rare lyrical poems in the world's poetry.