Socio-political Conflict in the poetry of Khalil Havi and Mehdi Akhvan Sales

Dramatic Expression is considered as one of the literary devices in poetry. A contemporary poet benefits from different dramatic techniques to materialize his or her thoughts. Conflict is one of the most basic techniques in so doing, as it adds a bilateral dimension to the literary work, makes possible its relation with the time, the society, and the world, and makes a connection between subjective and lyrical perspectives. The similarities between Khalil Havi and Mahdi Akhavan Sales, such as living in the same socio-political conditions, the use of symbolic expression and different dramatic techniques made it possible to investigate how the technique of socio-political conflict has been used, as well as the similarities and differences between the two poets from an extratextual perspective by focusing on a descriptive and analytical approach. Also, as social criticism will better explain the poets’ encounter with the existing reality, some of their poems have been analyzed from the critical literature perspective.
Investigating Havi’s and Sales’s poems indicates that they both have implicitly applied the technique of conflict in socio-political issues based upon the local, temporal, and natural symbols. Their difference in using this technique is mostly related to symbol instances.