MYSTICISM AND EXPRESSION IN SEPEHRI‟S POEMS

MYSTICISM AND EXPRESSION IN SEPEHRI‟S POEMS

Sohrab Sepehri is one of contemporary poets has own style. His style is different from the other modern poets and derived from mysticism. His mystical view is near "unity" thought of the classic mystics. Sepehri‘s mysticism obtains with the three elements: God, man and the world. From this perspective, God is everywhere and he is closer to humans. Sepehri calls the world as place of sleeping, warfare, separation and duality. He divided the world into two poles: upside and downside. Upside is light and downside is darkness. Sepehri uses some classic Sufi terminology too. One of them is place of nothingness that can be considered with Attar‘s ‗faqr and fana‘ in his Mantiqu 't-Tayr