Didactic contents in the ceremonial poetry

Didactic poetry has a long history in the Persian literature. This article tries to investigate the ceremonial poetry as a type of didactic poetry. Recently، this type of poetry has been used frequently. Ceremony poetry in the Persian literature has been called with different names such as religious literature، occasional literature، and so forth. This paper tries investigating some important issues in the ceremonial literature like the definition of ceremonial literature، the salient feature of this genre، the theme of ceremonial poetry from didactic point of view، and didactic thoughts in different types of ceremonial poetry. Moreover، a wide variety of this type of poetry is investigated that included monotheistic chant، religious eulogy and elegy in the Persian literature and all of them have been reflected in the study.