Western Surrealism resonates in the Water footsteps of  Sepahri

Aqaei, Mehrdad; Abaszadeh, Fazel; Ghaibzadeh, Susan

Western Surrealism resonates in the Water footsteps of Sepahri

Volume 3, Issue 1 - Serial Number 6
Spring 2019

Pages 27-43

Critique, Analysis and Aesthetics of Texts

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

Mehrdad Aqaei ¹

Fazel Abaszadeh ²

Susan Ghaibzadeh ³

¹ Assistant Professor of Arabic Language and Literature, University of Mohaghegh Ardabili

² Department of Persian Language and Literature, Pars Abad Moghan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Pars Abad Moghan, Iran

³ M.Sc. in Arabic Language and Literature, Mohaghegh Ardabili University

Abstract

Surrealism, with all its misgivings and confusion, has thrown so much fire into the lives of literature that it has swept across the East like a devastating slave and has swept all over the world. Sohrab Sepehri, an Iranian poet and painter and naturalist, made his surrealistic inspirations in his poetry during his travels to the East and West, as well as his acquaintance with Eastern mysticism and Western literature schools. This article seeks to introduce the school of surrealism to examine its features in Sepehri's poem "The Water footsteps." According to the evidence in this famous poem, it was concluded that Sepehri, in his poetic style in "The Water footsteps" had surpassed many of the surrealistic principles and grounded in the realities that even the Westerners themselves They need a hand. The purpose of this study is to depict the real world in a supernatural language and to reach the supreme truth through mental and spiritual affairs, by using the school of surrealism in this poet's work.

Keywords

Sohrab Sepehri

School of Surrealism

Water footsteps

Poetry

Oriental Sufism