Sohrab Sepehri, an Anti- Custom Reflection, a Norm-Avoiding Poem; (Survey of three poetry books; “Sound of Water’s Footsteps, Traveler and Green Dimension”)

Nowadays one of the diverse approaches to literary works considers both form and content simultaneously; avoiding the extreme borders of followers of formalism and content-based theories. Individuals such as Bakhtin and Goldman had based their research methods on such an approach. In this approach, it is believed that there is a tight and strong relationship between the work’s content and the concealed insight in it with the text of the work. The analysis of Sohrab Sepehri’s poetry can prove the appropriateness of this approach; because one can connect Sepehri’s anti- Custom contemplations and his norm-avoiding language. The study of Sepehri’s poetry shows that his anti- Custom thoughts influenced his language as well. Several instances of normavoiding and norm-breaking characteristics observed in his poetry prove this point. The interesting point is that among the high variety of norm-avoiding types (semantic, lexical and epochal), he has mostly used semantic order-avoiding ones such as identification, paradox, application of new images and compositions, symbols and intertwining of sensations; using the other order-avoiding devices less. The reason for this issue should be sought in Sohrab’s particular thought system and mind; which on one hand seeks to pay more attention to meaning and presentation of mystical motifs and thoughts; while on the other hand it negates any kind of approach to the past and constantly looks for innovation and purification of the universe. As a result, one cannot expect him to utilize epochal norm-avoiding devices which oppose to his intellectual and rational system.