A Study of Color in Sohrab Sepehri’s Poetry

A Study of Color in Sohrab Sepehri’s Poetry

Abstract The world in which we live is filled with thousands of colors that have surrounded us, through all ages and been used in an appropriate way. Colors are admirable phenomena and play an important role in our mental, emotional, and spiritual life. The azure sky, the red flowers, the green trees, and the blue sea all in one way or another affect the trend of our lives. Sohrab Sepehri, a contemporary poet – painter, due to his geographical environment has taken inspiration from different colors and has applied them. Sepehri’s being a painter has a magnificent influence upon his poetry and during the mystical and philosophical moments, his language floats in innate colors. In this study, an attempt has been made to study the role of color and its frequency in Sohrab Sepehri’s poetry and analyze his life, personality, and different stages of development and transformation of his life on the basis of Erikson’s psycho-social theories. Key words: Poetry, Sohrab Sepehri , color