An Eco-critical Reading of Nature Metaphors in the Selected Poems of Robert Frost and Sohrab Sepehri: A Comparative Study

Metaphor is a powerful tool to describe something abstract and compare it with something touchable. If metaphors are taken from nature, they are called nature metaphors. Nature metaphors imaginatively identify one thing with nature. Eco-criticism is a recently approach that emphasizes the significance of the relationship between man and nature. The present study makes a comparative study between nature metaphor poems of Robert Frost from United States and Sohrab Sepehri from Iran. They have different view of nature and different philosophies. Furthermore, comparing the works of two poets from two different cultures, the researcher attempts to make a bridge between American and Iranian literature. Their metaphors from nature have effect on our behavior with nature. Frost in his nature metaphors invites us to man subjects but Sepehri in his nature metaphors invites us to look.

Keywords:

Eco-criticism , Nature Metaphors , Sepehri , Frost