A Study of Nader or Eskandar by Akhavan Sales

Persian blank verse through its long journey has faced many important schools and processes. One of these processes is social symbolism. Social Symbolism is a process in which blank verse carries a state of duty toward the society and humanistic ideals, and it considers a political and social responsibility for poetry. On the other hand, poets in this process believe that art and poetry should be at the service of all people. Feeling responsibility toward their society, poets of this process, by using symbolic language, try to portray the existing condition of their society. The purpose of this research is to analyze ‘Nader or Eskandar’ from this point of view. This poem which is the first poem of the 33 published ones in the collection of ‘Akhare Shahnameh’ [The End of Shahname], was composed on ordibehasht 1335 by Akhavan.