The Relationship Between Human and Nature in Contemporary Percian Poetry: A Comparative Study Between Sepehri and Akhavan Sales

This article deals with the relationship between man and nature in the thought and poetry of Sohrab Sepehri and Mehdi Akhavan Sales. Two books, "The Sound of Water Feet" and "Green Volume" by Sepehri, and three books, "Winter", "The End of Shahnameh" and "From this Avesta" by Akhavan Sales, have been analyzed in this article. This article uses the views of some Romantic theorists, especially Jean-Jacques Rousseau. The approach of this interdisciplinary research and its method is a qualitative content analysis of a thematic type, which first deals with the method of analogy to find the concepts of theoretical considerations, the most important of which is the order of nature, which is present in Sepehri's poems. Second, the method of induction has extracted concepts and categories that are related to the relationship between human and nature and have not been considered in theoretical considerations. Relying on these two research logics and applying the method of thematic content analysis, two conceptual constructs of "naturalism" and "metamorphosis of human-nature relationships" were obtained, which are common between the poems of Sepehri's and  Akhavan Sales, but each has its own perception of these concepts.  The distinguishing feature of Sepehri's poems, in this case, is the attention to all-natural elements and having no superiority over each other,  and in Akhavan the main attention is on, "the coexistence of human and nature." Moreover, the kind of confrontation between Sepehri and  Akhavan Sales with nature is in contradiction with their time and in opposition to the dominant discourse and the idea of progress that dominates it.