Comparative study of the tree, water and light in poem of Sohrab Sepehri and Octavio Paz

Comparative studies of the poems of great poets assists in the affinity among different nations and the recognition of their outlooks and sometimes under the aegis of these studies, the possibility of better understanding of their poems and their effective criticisms is ensured. Sohrab Sepehri and Octavio Paz are among those poets who, due to their excessive interest in the culture of India and world mythology, have a similar poetical approach specially towards the basic elements of the entity, tree, water and light and since in mythological context these elements have a coherent relationship, they have been appeared with a same function in the poems of Sepehri and Paz. In this study, the functions of these natural elements in their poems have been studied and expressed in a descriptive-analytical method. Both of these poets, using mythological construct, have reflected the union between the human and tree, the union among tree, water and light, and the union between water and light, and finally the deep relationship among human, tree, water and light have reflected in a similar poetical utterance which understanding this not only helps in the analysis of many of the odd and weird poetical compounds of these two poets, but also in the demonstration of their poetical pulchritude and under the aegis of this study the link between Sepehri and Paz from a poetical and mythological approach is revealed.