Discourse Analysis of Sohrab Sepehri in the Poem of "Seda-ye-Boo-ye-Ab", Focusing on Wilhelm Dilthey's Hermeneutic Theory

One of Sepehri's poem collections, namely "Seda-ye-Boo-ye Ab", is the essence of his thoughts, emotions, longings, and inner world through which his worldview can be understood. Elements such as nature, travel, and escape from urban life and industrialism, are symbols of Sepehri's worldview through which his experiences can be tangible since these elements are a microcosm of Sepehri's worldview that can be meaningful by connecting them to one another and also by a broader connection to the whole. This method of reading has been established in Wilhelm Dilthey's hermeneutic theories in which it is vital to understand the author's worldview –through exclusion of time gap and understanding the conditions under which the literary work is created- to understand the author's work since a literary work is the illustration of the author's worldview and the reproduction of the author's emotions, wishes, and longings can be gained through understating the text. This study is an effort to interpret and analyze Sepehri's discourse in Seda-ye- Boo-ye-Ab based on Wilhelm Dilthey's hermeneutic principles.