Mirza Abdullah Gorgi Esfahani's Poems: Categorization and Analysis of Content Fields

Mirza Abdullah Gorgi Esfahani is one of the prominent food-poets in the 13th century Hijri, having composed noteworthy poems using one of the branches of satire; parody, and hence having displayed both his own satirical art and the problems and shortages of his time. This research first tries to give a certain definition of parody and then analyze Gorgi Esfahani's parodies. The objective is to investigate these parodies in detail using content analysis and obtain less noted valuable points. The analysis of these parodies reveals four 'individual', 'cultural and social', historical and economic', and 'religious' fields in the poems of this poet. These views are partly entertaining and satirical, especially regarding the superficial processes of the poems, but delving into the hidden layers of these parodies reveals a kind of dark satire and critical aspects that are very important for being acquainted with the life and time of this poet.