The Evolution of Mirror as Symbol in Saeb and SeiidaNasafi's Poetry

It would seem impossible to benefit from literature to bring about the ideas of nations together without a study of their poet’s common style characteristics. A comparative study of the sonnets of Saeb and SeiidaNasafiindicates an abounding use of symbols such as “the detached lover, mirror, nightingale, butterfly, fire, flame,…” introducing many images and literary traditions into poetry. The question is why poets took advantage of symbols and how the novel ideas and the proper style to them. To Saeb and SeiidaNasafi, symbols are but tools to deal with the question of love and insanity, selflessness, annihilation, union with God, …. This study aims at examining the similarity of evolution of mirror as symbol in the poetry of SaebansSeiidaNasafi.