hasht ketab

 Sohrab Sepehari"s poetry represents the obvious and hidden aspects of his thought and personality, and his intellectual trajectory and ontology can be followed in eight books. In such a way that by following the historical course of formation and recognizing the semantic structure of each of the octagonal books of this work, it is possible to draw a picture of Sohrab"s transition and personal journey. On the other hand, the words and expressions in his poetry are the carriers of the poet"s thought, philosophy and mystical experience, and based on this characteristic, he can be considered one of the poets in the field of conceptual poetry.

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The present research has explained the compatibility of Sohrab Sepehri"s soul journey with the semantic structure and time sequence of Hasht katab notebooks with a descriptive-analytical method and a holistic and semantic approach.

 The notebooks of Hasht ketab, with special titles given by the poet himself, contain a lot of information about the poet"s thought and worldview, and their analysis opens clear windows to the better understanding and explanation of Sepehri"s intellectual and epistemological system. As not only by examining the sequence of formation of the books, one can draw and follow the poet"s inner evolution line, but also to identify and describe the semantic center of each of these books as parts of a coherent whole, it helps to understand the semantic structure of this work and the poet"s thought system.

 In addition to having the components of a conceptual poem, Sepehri"s poem is a description of a personal journey that narrates the evolution of the poet in the form of a coherent and continuous collection. As the first book of this collection with the theme of absolute darkness and emptiness, portrays the hell of the poet"s thought, the second to fourth books, with the essence of sleep, consciousness and sad sorrow, the narrator of the purgatory of Sohrab"s thought, and the fifth, sixth and seventh books with the central meanings of insight, no thought and enlightenment. , they express the paradise of the poet"s thought, which finally reaches a redemptive end in the eighth book, and the poet is placed in the position of observation and presence.

Literary creativity is the reflection of creative potentiality of a poet in forming new concept. To this end, the present research aims to explore the process of literary creativity based on conceptualization and linguistic strategies used in Sohrab Sepehri’s poems with special focus on “Hasht ketab”. Required data collected based on library research method. Descriptive-analytical method used to answer the research questions in line with the related goals in this study. Results of this study indicate that big portion of  the act of creating meaning and imagination inspired by the view of Zen Buddhism, the essence of which is attempting to understand the meaning of life directly, without being misled by thought. Secondly ,the poet  relied on his personal experiences and literary potency  in using linguistic strategies and semanticization.This research attempts to  probe the literary creativity by referring to “Hasht Ketab “and  related references. This study finally shows that how the poet lead to create a unique work based on in-depth understanding and influence made by the view of Zen Buddhism.

Sohrab is one of the contemporary mystic poets who have acted an inner journey in writing his "Hasht Ketab". The thematic study of Sohrab Sepehri's poems places him among the poets of phenomenology who open the first doors to the perception and awareness of his existence and in unity with the world around him, lead to epistemology and ontological view. Among the existing schools of psychology, the existentialist approach is the only one that directly and with the help of existential and emerging philosophers and authors, looks at different types of emotions and mental disorders from its ontological point of view. Yalom's view provided a map for ontological-humanistic treatment by focusing on the "certainties of existence," i.e, death, freedom, isolation, and emptiness, and by emphasizing the relationship in order to discuss these certainties. These things play a very important role in each level of the individual's psychological structure and are closely related to clinical work. In addition, they create a central organizing principle.

In line with personification and synesthesia, symbol is a significant characteristic of rhetorical level of Sohrab Sepehri’s style. By means of iteration, some of the symbols have been converted to an important and remarkable characteristic and are considered as motif. According to stylistical  investigations, words as “water, light and illumination, loneliness, void, nothing, lotus flower, apple, anemone flower, green and blue color” are symbolic motifs of “Hasht ketab”.   These symbols are extracted from three parts; nature, Zen-buddhism  and myth by which freshness and innovation are demonstrated in Sohrab Sepehri’s poem. After defining symbol and motif  in this article, symbolic motifs will be investigated by means of descriptive-analytical method, and according to poem’s contexture, the specific and accurate meaning of them will be expressed in different poems.

Language is a mental system which appears as an instrument or phonetic structure and its main role is communication and transmission of idea among people. Using different language rules and disciplines and making different types of words, people try to communicate with each other in different contexts. Therefore, obviously, language is not separated from people’s life and activities. In fact, language accompanies people from the beginning to the end of their life. The present study is about the use of onomatopoeia in Sepehri’s Hasht Ketab. The results show that Sepehri, uses onomatopoeia abundantly in his poetic language, and it helps the reader to understand his text better. The theoretical basis for this study is the views of the Danish linguist, Otto Jespersen and others referred to in the book A Glossary of Persian Onomatopoeia. These people name as onomatopoeia any word between whose sound and meaning there is a natural relationship.

Language is a mental system which appears as an instrument or phonetic structure and its main role is communication and transmission of idea among people. Using different language rules and disciplines and making different types of words, people try to communicate with each other in different contexts. Therefore, obviously, language is not separated from people’s life and activities. In fact, language accompanies people from the beginning to the end of their life. The present study is about the use of onomatopoeia in Sepehri’s Hasht Ketab. The results show that Sepehri, uses onomatopoeia abundantly in his poetic language, and it helps the reader to understand his text better. The theoretical basis for this study is the views of the Danish linguist, Otto Jespersen and others referred to in the book A Glossary of Persian Onomatopoeia. These people name as onomatopoeia any word between whose sound and meaning there is a natural relationship.

Comparative literature is an important area of literary studies with a long history. The comparative study of writers and poets can shed light on the impact of various thoughts among different cultures. Sohrab Sepehri، as one of the eminent contemporary poets of Iran، and William Wordsworth، one of the founders of Romantic poetry in England are chosen for this research. The employment of some Romantic concepts are among the common poetical aspects of Sepehri and Wordsworth. This research is based on the following basic principles of Romanticism: Nature and childhood nostalgia، ambiguous locations and، death wish،، individualism and self image and the notion of poet- prophet، and the love of birthplace and country. The current research demonstrates that all of the above mentioned Romantic elements، central to Wordsworth، are also observable in Sepehri’s work. thus bringign the two poets extremely close in terms of the employment of Romantic concepts.