A comparative study of the literary and symbolic use of the element of color in the poems of Ferdowsi Toosi and Bashar Ben Bard

One of the most important elements in the emergence of artistic creativity is the use of color. In fact, color is one of the special elements that can reveal many secrets and achieve many hidden secrets through knowing its characteristics and effects. Poets, as aestheticians of the universe, have used colors in their poetic images and sometimes used them to explain the inexpressible concepts and symbolic space of their poems.In this research, which has been carried out using a library method, while presenting poetic evidence from the poems of Ferdowsi Toosi and Bashar Ben Bard as the studied poets who have used colors in some way, analyzing the methods and how they use color in literature, symbolism and rhetoric (especially of black and white color) in inducing the message to the audience.The results of the research show that black and white colors in these poems of Ferdowsi and Basharban have a high frequency compared to other colors. Ferdowsi and Bashar Ben Bard have made good use of the huge capacity of colors to convey their thoughts, intentions and messages in various social, cultural, religious and political fields in a real, ironic, symbolic and mythological space to their audience.