Abstract

Sohrab Sepehri and William Wordsworth’s poems, have repeatedly been compared as they both reflect Pantheism and Emerson’s Over-Soul, yet they have never been studied in the light of Ibn Arabi’s Philosophy. The theory of Constant Immanence or renewal of creation expressed by Ibn Arabi can be regarded as an umbrella term to read the selected poems of Sepehri and Wordsworth and detect the similarities between these poets of two distinct milieu. Ibn Arabi’s innovative ideas of constantly renewing creation of the cosmos, the relationship between Man and Nature, Perfect Man and the love of religion have been depicted impressively centuries later in Sepehri’s and Wordsworth’s works. There is a wide tendency to compare the poems of these two poets of different milieu due to their special outlook to nature and their very individualistic worlds and their wide acceptance by both elite and common readers of poetry.

Highlights

  • Sohrab Sepehri, (1928-1980) a popular Iranian poet and painter, was born in Kashan, a city in the center of Iran

  • The theory of Constant Immanence or renewal of creation expressed by Ibn Arabi can be regarded as an umbrella term to read the selected poems of Sepehri and Wordsworth and detect the similarities between these poets of two distinct milieu

  • In “Zendegi Khabha”, he crept into his social feelings and perception in 1953.After Mosadegh’s failure and the events followed by the so-called White Revolution in Iran, he resorted to nature and tried to settle down in a natural world constantly renewed tying the poet to his creator

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INTRODUCTION

Sohrab Sepehri, (1928-1980) a popular Iranian poet and painter, was born in Kashan, a city in the center of Iran. A Comparative Study of Wordsworth and Sepehris Poetry in the Light of Ibn Arabis Philosophy lowers, many later authors referred to him as ‘Ebn ‘Arabi’, without the article, to differentiate him from Qadi Abu Bakr Ebn al-’Arabi”(Chittick 1-4) He was born in Murcia in Spain, and his family moved to Seville when he was eight. Even in the contemporary time, one can detect Ibn Arabi’s impact on ‘Sheikh Mahmud Tadli’ and ‘Sheikh Ahmad al-alavi Jazayeri’, two great Islamic leaders of the contemporary world He has been of great importance among academic people; one of their most popular ones is William Chittick, professor of State University of New York, whose books and articles on Ibn Arabi are quite well-known nowadays

CONSTANT IMMANENCE
CREATION AND LOVE RELIGION
PERFECT MAN
The First Poem
The Second Poem
The Third Poem
The Fourth Poem
The Fifth Poem
The Sixth Poem
The Seventh Poem
CONCLUSION
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