A study on theposituon of Simile and allegory in Saadi's didactic poems

SaadiShirazi is one of the most didacticpoets of Persian language who has assigned significant part of his works to education and morality.BesidesBoostan and Golestanthat areconsidered as his didactic works,Saadi has allotted some of his odes to expression the aphorism and maxim. He uses the rhetoric images to teaching the moral points. Simile is one of these rhetoric images which he has extremely usedit to impart his didactic views. His literary Similes have different kinds and associate with elegances and tender points in his poems. Allegory as a kind of simile is abundant in his works and he uses it in different methods.He changes the place of likened with something is likened to it in his didactic allegories. Anotherfeature of his similes is that he resembles the differentbad and good personalities of man to the sensible things to explain them for audiences.Therefore, withregard to special place of simile in Saadi’sdidactic poems, in this paper we will survey different kinds of simile in his works.