Origin of “Beyond the Seas” Poem

Regarding few cases of change, it is possible to consider this essay in the field of intertextuality and comparative literature. Apart from both approaches, the author tries to investigate the main origin of the poem “Beyond the Seas” by Sohrab Sepehri, the most famous poem of Green Volume’s collection written on postal cards and posters and Persian textbooks of second year high school. In an article “ Sepehri and the question of today’s poem” By Hussein Ma’sui Hamedani ; he believes that the choice of title and the description of this poem on behalf of the poet has been under influence of a narration by Imam Sadeq. After the publication of this article, several scholars have attributed this poem to an allusion of this narration. This study shows that the origin of this poem is in fact a Chinese lyrics with his own translation. To be aware of pre text helps reader better understand the exact universe of poem and prepare the way to further studies.