The word "fancy" was one of the most frequently used expressions of the theologians before the 8^th century and was not among the common expressions in the texts of Sufism in this period. Ebn-e-Arabi was the first to borrow the term from Ebn-e-Sina and Sohrevardi in order to describe his specific thoughts on the universe and the human relation with God. He uses the term to refer to whatever beyond God and the phenomena which do not have more than imaginary existence. He also uses the term for the Limbo world which is the intermediary between the World of Nature and the Heavenly World. Prior to him,  however, the word "fancy" was used exclusively in the texts of Sufism and was realized through fantasizing like dream trips, legendary events, heavenly creatures' observations, mental mastery over future and distant happenings, and callings of the spirits and individuals all of which make the source of a lot of  Sofistic narratives and miracles.

Narratology, which is the one of the achievements of structuralism in literature, helps the critic to analyze various stories at two levels of story and discourse by studying the role of functions and actions .At the story level, the critic can discover similar narratives in terms of episodes, characters and settings by ignoring the historical, cultural and social differences. With this in mind, The Shahnameh Stories "Zal and Rudabeh", "Bijan and Manijeh" and the "Romeo and Juliet" play by Shakespeare is worthy of comparison and evaluation. All three stories narrate the love of lovers from two feuding families who face many obstacles in their way to :union:. With this level of analysis, we can find out what actions and functions cause the fate of the heroes of these stories. At the discourse level of narrative, Ferdowsi and Shakespeare's status as the narrator can be specified and their orientation and worldview can be sought in text through analyzing the  language in the context. Through discourse analysis and the narrative codes, the underlying beliefs, traditions and culture can be perceived in the aforementioned narratives.

In the semantic functionalism approach, language constructs are examined according to three specific views: Ideational, interpersonal, and textual. These three, calledmetafunctions, form the basis of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL). Halliday, the founder of systemic functional linguistics, believes that the patterns of experience and mental concepts of the creators of works are reflected in the verbal processesof ideationalmetafunction. Therefore, by examining the types of processes, and the factors and circumstances that create them, one can become aware of the ideas and experiences of the creators of literary works and analyze the factors influencing their formation.Considering this aim and adopting a descriptive-analytical approach, Ebtehaj lyrics, based on their constructive discourse, were divided into three historical periods and after determining the frequency and describing the function of verbal processes as astylistic feature their constituent factors were analyzed. The findings show the extensive application of the material process and then the relational process to other systemic functional linguistics processes.The reason for the high frequency and type of application of the mentioned processes, as well as the small representation of other main and secondary processes ofideationalmetafunction in Ebtehaj sonnets should be considered in factors such as the effect of meaning on the formation of the language of the work, political and social changes of the poet’s time,his special mood and stylistics, the importance of the role of the audience in his thought, as well as his drawing inspiration from earlier and contemporary poets.