A comparison and analysis of the themes of protest poems in contemporary Iranian literature

‘Protest Poetry’ as a literary type tries to present the dark spots of society in order to reform it, and for this purpose, it attacks many weaknesses, injustices, disorders, inattention and so on. This article tries to examine the themes of protest poems of the contemporary period of Iranian history, which include the constitutional era, the Pahlavi era and the period of the Islamic Revolution.This article has been conducted as a case study and library study, and the themes of protest poems of the contemporary period of Iranian history, which include the constitutional era, the Pahlavi era and the Islamic Revolution, have been collected and analyzed descriptively.In general, the themes of these poems can be divided into two categories, i.e., common and specific themes. Common themes are the issues that exist in all three mentioned periods, such as protest against class conflict, poverty, hypocrisy of traitors, foreign interference and self-blame, etc. Based on the political and social situation of each period, some protests have been given special attention in each period, including protesting against the ignorance of the people, protesting against suffocation and not being free, protesting against forgetting the memory of the martyrs, etc. In all these themes, poets with a language mixed with humor try to guide to the right path those who have deviated from it.Finally, by examining these themes, it was concluded that the purpose of protest poetry is to preserve values, reform society and fight against various types of injustice, and it is a kind of enjoining the good and forbidding the wrong.Protest poetry, Constitutional period, Literature, Side of the Islamic Revolution, Injustice.