Patriotism in Akhavan Sales and Iliya Abu madi's Poems

Patriotism is a part of national identity which could be seen a lot in the poems of some poets specially when there is a fear of foreign aggression. Ferdowsi is a pioneer of the poets who seek for their national identity and ethnic glories. Historically, however, he was living at the time when Iranian civilization was flourishing, so he had a chance of writing epics regarding his great talent in this kind of poem.After ferdowsi’s time, patriotism and epical poems could be found in the poems of the poets of Mashrotiyat era like Adib-ol-mamalek Farahani, Seyyed Ashraf Ghazvini, Aref Ghazvini and Malek-ol-shoa’ra Bahar and in the contemporary time, it revealed itself in Akhavan Sales’ poems who was influenced by Ferdowsi. In the contemporary Arab poet Ilia Abu Madi is well-known for his epical poems.This article analyzed the similarities in the poems of these poets based on patriotism.