A COMPARISON of Emerson and Sa’adi’s transcendental literature themes

Subject Areas : شعر

behnaz  eskandari ¹ (استاد یار زبان و ادبیات فارسی دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد فیروز آباد)

Received: 2012-02-07 Accepted : 2013-04-08 Published : 2012-08-01

Keywords: literature, comparison, themes, سعدی-امرسون-ادبیات-استعلایی- دورن مایه- تطبیق- مشترک, Keywords Saadi, Emerson, Transcendentalism, Common,

Abstract :

Abstract Among the works that the orientalists in nineteenth-century have translated and introduced into the European language and literature, Saadi's works have a special place. Ralph Waldo Emerson, the transcendental American poet that has been familiar with the works of Saadi through these translations, has found so many mystical and divine beliefs of his own in them. He who doesn’t like the materialism and SUPERFICIALITY of his time, has been distracted by thoughts of Saadi and his oriental look to the fact of life, and this fascination can be discovered in Emerson's poetry and prose. With a comparative look at Saadi and Emerson’s works, this paper is to achieve common mystical and transcendental themes that were the concerns of both poets from two different cultures and literatures that have been far apart. Motif such as intuition, spirit, soul, worship, surrender and satisfaction, that all have repeatedly come in the prose and poetry of Saadi and Emerson, are the principle elements of Emerson's transcendental philosophy and the mystical ideas of Saadi Shirazi.