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Abstract
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Nature’s description has a great value both in English and Persian literature. The aim of this study is finding the similarities of selected poems of the two poets -John Keats (English Romantic poet, 1795 - 1821) and Manuchehri Damghani (Persian poet, 1031- 1040) - based on describing the sensuous beauty of Nature. John Keats, is an English poet of the second generation of romantic poets. He is famous for his letters and Odes such as; “Ode to a Nightingale” and “Ode on a Grecian Urn”. Romanticism has three main elements, which are I, Nature, God, among which Nature is used more in the poems of John Keats. Manuchehri Damghani is among the most prominent poets describing Nature in Persian literature. He had familiarity with Arabic and Persian poems. He invented the form of musammat (stanzaic poems) in Persian poetry and described natural landscapes very skillfully in his poems. The genre of Manuchehri’s poems is lyrical and descriptive, so it is possible to compare his poems with nineteenth-century European romantic poetry. There are mostly two types of poetry: dynamic and static. Dynamic poems are the kind of poems which has a plot, characters, and an action that happens, but static poems just describe a scene and nothing happens in them. Morse Peckham an American professor believed in organism, not machine. He said: “Now the first quality of an organism is that it is not something made, it is something being made or growing. We have a philosophy of becoming, not a philosophy of being.”. Peckham stated that “the work of art has no fixed or static meaning but changes with the observer in a relationship between the two which is both dialectical, or dynamic, and organic.”. It can be said that Manuchehri’s poems have a dynamic organism due to the poet’s imagination and the usage of symbols to describe Nature. John Keats also had dynamic thought, and he applied his imagination in describing Nature. Keats believed that “beauty is truth, truth is beauty.” Therefore, it can
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