The Boyerahmadi Epic Verses or Threnodies

The epic threnodies or šowxins are popular poems that are composed by unknown poets after the death of one of the heroes or elders of the Lori tribe in the fight against the ruling regime, and have long been read by the people and singers of Lori poems. Bakhtiari and Boyerahmadi tribes have many racial, linguistic, cultural and historical affinities, and threnodies have a high place among them; therefore, in this paper, in order to study the various dimensions of these poems and to find out the phenomenon of the transmission of popular poems, they are compared according to the method of content analysis (comparative approach). It is briefly stated that Bakhtiari and Boyerahmadi threnodies have the same and common elements of epic poetry (heroic, national, ethnic, and narrative forms), themes, verses and hemistiches, description, and literary characteristics, but the language of Boyerahmadi threnodies is rougher than that of Bakhtiari's and it has a kind of controversy with the unexampled creator. In this paper, the most important linguistic, literary, cultural and historical values of these threnodies are discussed. Also, the analysis can be regarded as a model for study of this kind of popular poetry in different parts of Iran.