The Indian Style Poets and Their Different View to Myth

Myths express the beliefs and values of a people. In the passage of time, they have been manifested in the poems of Iranian people and Persian poem styles. In 10th A.H. century and after establishment of the Safavid dynasty a basic change in Iranian society and all of its art and thought schools took place. In this period, a poetic style, called Indian style, was formed in Persian literature that was entirely different from its older styles and changed the Persian poetry formally and semantically. The method of using of myths by poets is one of these changes. Indian style poets refer to myths as unsacred concepts, myths like Khidr, Water of Life and Christ that have the most frequency in Persian mystical poems. The Indian style poets of the Safavid age pay attention to the earthly world and this-worldly facts. The poems of this age are transformed to this-worldly ones.