Childlikeness in Sepehri’s Poetry

摘要

Child’s eye view is the thinking and poetic style of the contemporary poet Sohrab Sepehri. This view is present in various ways in Sepehri’s poetry. He used childhood memories as a poetic asset. Sepehri maintains a sincere, honest, and, yet, simple tone to explain his mystical revelations and apperceptions. His tone is a mixture of childish, poetic, and symbolic verbiage. His far reaching imaginativeness resembles a child’s unlimited imagination trying to establish new relations and pertinences between objects and events. Sepehri’s child like approach to poetry helped him create novel, strange, and unprecedented imageries whose variations and freshness are unconscious reminders of heterogeneous and diverse reflections of childhood imaginations. His child’s eye view observes activities and events without conventions, prejudice, and predispositions. Sepehri presents a trickle of freshness, wonder, and pleasure in his poetry that rivals with what children experience. This article is a study into the resemblance between Sepehri’s mythical views and children perceptions. It is an attempt to uncover and explain Sepehri’s thoughts, emotions, imaginations, and language as presented in his poems.