Apocalyptic in Sohrab Sepehri’s Hasht Ketab
Subject Areas : Research in Iranian classical literature
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Keywords: apocalyptic literature Hasht Ketab Sohrab Sepehri prediction,
Abstract :
Apocalyptic literature is one of the genre in the area of Sacred Books and religious-faith texts. Apocalyptic literature foresee past and future events by tools of various types based on the culture dominating the society and its opinions and express it in form of art, literature and by codified and symbolic language. Top and complete type of this, exists in Hannah Sacred Book, Nostrdamous universal apocalyptic and Farsi Shah Nemat-U Allah Vali literature. (Divan Ashaar, 1373:228). This issue have been circulated in any period of art and literature specially in Farsi contemporary literature. Among these we can mention Sohrab Sepehri’s, Forokh Farrokhzad and the likes ones poetries. This article tries to criticize and analyze its type of literature in the past and its origins and then criticize Sepehri’s Hasht Ketan from this view point and analyze the apocalyptic singled out in the ten areas such as dream and the likes. The major points is that pointing the first apocalyptic (poetic revelation and apocalyptic), Sohrab points to its second meaning namely apocalyptic while pointing the manifestation related tools proior to deal with the prediction itself and the event concerning the Last Time.
