Image Analysis of Sohrab Sepehri's Poems Based on the Ideas of T.E. Hulme

The school of imagery is one of the schools of modern art that is formed on the basis of imagination and indirect expression. In this school, the image does not have the aspect of decoration, but also forms the meaning and structure of the artistic works. T. E. Hulme was one of the first poets to express the basics of today's poetry and tried to alter poetry from yesterday's absolutism to today's particularism. Between Classicism and Romanticism, he chose classicism and tried to add a new element to it by adding intuition. On the other hand, the Iranian poet, Sohrab Sepehri has a clear tendency towards Romanticism in his poems; however, his acquaintance with the art of painting has made his poetry one of the most pictorial contemporary poems in Iran. The current article analyzes Sepehri's poetry from the point of view of the school of Imagism in a descriptive-analytical way. The criterion for the analysis is the 1915 Declaration. This statement is closer to the ideas and views of Hulme as the theorist of this school. The results revealed that although Sepehri's poetry is a pictorial poem at first glance, but in some components such as "explicit and clear expression as well as avoidance of ambiguity" is outside the framework of the school of imagism, which can be a sign of his intellectual and emotional independence. It is also a proof of the claim that the European art schools tend toward the poetry of the top Iranian poets,