Aspects of Satire in the Poems of ShafieiKadkani against Autocracy of Pahlavi Dynasty

Satire as a literary genre has the potential to be used in an ideological text to obtain discoursive intentions. This essay investigates discoursive function of satire in revolutionary poems of Mohammad Reza Shafieikadkani at the time of Pahlavi II. ShafieiKadkani, in the discourse of revolution against autocracy of the Kingdom, uses different methods of satire to illustrate its ideological thoughts and uses specially invading and assaulting methods of satire to attack cultural and economic policies of the Kingdom and to divest its legitimacy. Methodologically, naming methods, unification with animal, simile, satire of oppositeness, satire of incongruity and satire of violence and invective are among the most significant methods of his satirical attacks. For increasing literary value of his poem and also for security reasons, Shafieikadkani uses metaphors and symbols as main methods of mystification in these attacks.