Deviation Analysis on Sohrab Sepehri's Selected Poems

The present study attempts to analyze different types of deviations in the five selected poems of Sohrab Sepehri's Eight Books, mainly based on Leech's opinion and method. Deviation is aimed at intensifying artistic beauty in order to further the influence of poet's inner states. Despite the fact that distancing from the norm of standard language would make poets capable of approaching to artistic creativity, it is significant to note that they are subject to some restrictions and have to be as purposeful and directional as possible as well as avoid unauthorized structures so as not to conduct a senseless work. In this current study, the existence and contribution of variant deviations would convey poetic concepts of Sepehri's poets such as sense of nostalgia in the form of emotions of grief of homelessness, praise of nature, loneliness, thought of death, painting and oriental delicacies and thoughts very well. Moreover, such creativities applied to make the poems more aesthetical and dense in meaning. From his five selected poems, which are the focus of this article, we can conclude that five types of deviations such as semantic, grammatical, dialectal, graphological, deviation of register and deviation of historical period applied within Sohrab's works of art which its most manifestation and maneuver achieved through semantic and grammatical deviations.

Keywords:

Deviation , Leech's Method , Sohrab Sepehri , Sense of Nostalgia