A Comparative Study of Heroic Myths in Nima Yoshij and Ahmad Shamloo's Poetries

Mythical heroes are human beings who go beyond the common norms of society and become the manifestation of the values ​​of that society with their adventures and way of life. One of the prominent and different subjects in ancient poetry is myth, which has been manifested in a different way in Persian contemporary poetry. This research compares the heroic myths in the poems of Nima Yoshij and Ahmad Shamloo with descriptive methods, intratextual evidence and library method. The results show that heroic myths are more prominent in Shamloo's poems than Nima and Shamloo has considered the concept of humanism in the way of using heroic myths. Heroic myths in their poems are not only the power of ancient poets, but also differ in the style and method of myth-making; These differences are caused by the special style of poetry in the contemporary period, which has influenced the heroic myths and how they are used. The common point of their poems is the use of Greek myths.