Separation And Union In Selected Poems Of Jalaluddin Rumi And William Blake In The Light Of Hermeneutics
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Date
2015-07
Authors
Mahdi Dehghani, Firouz Abadi
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Universiti Sains Malaysia
Abstract
In this comparative study of two great mystical literary figures, attention is
directed at comparing Jalaluddin Rumi and William Blake with regard to their
contribution in the poetic and the spiritual development of mystical literature. The
emphasis of the thesis is on the themes of separation and union in the selected poems
of the two poets. Jalaluddin Rumi as Sufi poet and William Blake as a Romantic Poet
did not study the works of each other and hailed from different geographical, political,
social, and religious environment. However, they seem to speak about similar themes,
namely separation and union. As such, there is really a need to conduct a comparative
study on the themes of separation and union in Sufism as an integral part of an
organized religion and specifically in the poems of Rumi and Romanticism as a nonreligious
category, specifically the poems of Blake. The thesis tries to analyze and
explain the similarities and differences between the poetry of Rumi and Blake through
an in-depth understanding of the themes of separation and union. The study also
attempts to ascertain and define clearly the spiritual positions and views of the two
poets based on separation and union and regardless of the differences in culture,
language and their presence in different centuries and different places. This
comparative study is constructed on the doctrine of perennial philosophy led by
Aldous Huxley. A hermeneutical approach was employed to analyze the poetry of
Rumi and Blake. Examining the similarities and differences between the poetry of the
two poets through an in-depth understanding of themes of separation and union
indicated that the study is unique in a literary sense and it is possible to fill a literary
gap via studying these two prominent figures and their literary mystical ideas. In
addition, the spiritual position of the two poets proved that they have a lot of
commonalities in causes and process of separation as well as the path to union with
divinity.
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Poems , Jalaluddin Rumi as Sufi poet and William Blake as a Romantic Poet