Fantasy in Ahmad Reza Ahmadi's Haft Ruz-e Hafte Daram (I have Seven Days of the Week)

Fantasy is one of the most important and useful literary genres for children and young adults. It is a genre that permits the writer to create an imaginative mysterious, scary, and magical atmosphere. Thus the reader not only enjoys the text but also reaches a new definition for existence. Ahmad Reza Ahmadi, an Iranian writer of fiction for children and young adults, has published a variety of works of fantasy; in 1384 his book entitled, I Have Words that Only You kids Believe appeared causing quite a stir. He has also published White Pigeon beside the Mirror in 1389. In these books he uses features such as deconstruction, defamiliarization, relativism, linguistic games and virtual realities which also appear in his modern poems. In this paper Ahmad Reza Ahmadi's poems for children and his modern mainstream poems are compared and common features are discussed.