A study of similar themes in the American Transcendence literature and Sohrab Sepehri's Poetry

Subject Areas : شعر

Mahdi Farhoodi Nia ¹

1 - Faculty Member. Isamic Azad University Abadeh Branch

Received: 2012-09-28 Accepted : 2012-09-28 Published : 2009-08-01

Keywords: سهراب سپهری, استعلای امریکایی, بودیسم, پیورتنیسم, جینیسم, شهود, روح اعلا, American transcendence, Buddhism. Puritanism. intuition, Jainism,

Abstract :

There is much similarity between the themes of Sohrab Sepehris poetry and American transcendence literature. American transcendence was formed as a literary. social. cultural. religious and philosophical movement against the rules of the society with poets such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry David Thoreau.  g From the literary point of view they wanted a free style form with , the content of nature human essence. From the social point of view they were against the luxuries of the consuming society. The present article studies the similarities of the themes of transcendence works and Sepehris poetry under seven different titles.