Iranian Persian Language and Literature Promotion Society Research on Mystical Literature HTTPS://JP 2 2 2008 08 22 Nowhere The similarities between life and works of Mehdi Akhavan Sales and Buland-al-Haidari Nowhere The similarities between life and works of Mehdi Akhavan Sales and Buland-al-Haidari 181 206 16376 FA Manijeh Abdollahi Paramedical faculty, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences Journal Article 2016 06 14 This essay compares the life and poetry of the contemporary Arab poet, Buland –al-Haidari with Mehdi Akhavan Sales, the contemporary Persian poet. One of the most remarkable subjects which play a main role in the poems of the two poets is the similarity between their life and other social and political aspects of their countries' atmosphere. In other words, they were living in a very similar condition which has been reflected through their works. The similarities extracted in our study have been classified as follows: 1. Both poets faced many difficulties in their family life and also their social and political life in their own countries. 2. Both poets played an important role in developing the modern poetry in their own countries. 3. Both poets have a strong desire to return to the roots. In Akhavan's works, this desire appears in the shape of ancient Persian mythology and legends specially those words that he has borrowed from Zoroastrian culture, and Haidari shows this in the shape of ancient cultures that were still alive in Iraq before Islam, such as Sumerians and Akkadians. 4. There is a common theme in their poems such as: feeling of loneliness, losing hope, being defeated, sadness, and … This essay compares the life and poetry of the contemporary Arab poet, Buland –al-Haidari with Mehdi Akhavan Sales, the contemporary Persian poet. One of the most remarkable subjects which play a main role in the poems of the two poets is the similarity between their life and other social and political aspects of their countries' atmosphere. In other words, they were living in a very similar condition which has been reflected through their works. The similarities extracted in our study have been classified as follows: 1. Both poets faced many difficulties in their family life and also their social and political life in their own countries. 2. Both poets played an important role in developing the modern poetry in their own countries. 3. Both poets have a strong desire to return to the roots. In Akhavan's works, this desire appears in the shape of ancient Persian mythology and legends specially those words that he has borrowed from Zoroastrian culture, and Haidari shows this in the shape of ancient cultures that were still alive in Iraq before Islam, such as Sumerians and Akkadians. 4. There is a common theme in their poems such as: feeling of loneliness, losing hope, being defeated, sadness, and … https://jpll.ui.ac.ir/article_16376_47da3ae63acfab8f7751695cd17023b1.pdf