Intuition, Symbol and Sepehri's Poems

Sohrab Sepehri, the contemporary innovative literary stylist poet, has always employed a symbolic and, at the same time, a peculiar language which is unique by itself. In general, his poem is a symbolic and a poetic description of a kind of mysticism intelligible to commonpeople. Through drawing upon poetic elements, phenomenon, and lexicon, Sepehri has tried to awaken the unconscious nature of his readers and divert their attention to new horizons. Due to his mentality and also his peculiar understanding of the events, he has had to resort to an unusual and symbolic language based on intuition. In this way,he has achieved a certain kind of aestheticism in his works. Semantic, linguistic, imagery and symbolic defamiliarization can be traced in his poetry. These very peculiarities have made him a different and modern poet in our time. The present paper reviews some aspects of Sepehri's symbolism through exploring his use of words, objects andthe living things as perceived through his intuition and mysticism.