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Archaism is one of the most important tools for defamiliarisation of speech and it causes the wordto go beyond the reach of the common people and be closer to poetry. The most prominent function of Defamiliarisation is the poetic creativity that a part of it originates from the Archaism. Ahmad Shamloo who is among the innovator and effective poets of our time، has largely benefited from the Archaism and its functions for the new changes he has created in the art of poetry. He could connect the old prose and the themes of the modern world By virtue of his intelligence and ingenuity in art، his language proficiency and taking advantage of the great works such as the History of Beyhaqi، Golestan-e-Saadi and the mystical prose of fifth and sixth centuries. He could create a special place for his innovative method of poetry which has been named the Blank Verse. The aim of this study is to investigate the functions and types of Archaismin a poem of Shamloo which has led to determining his poetic language. This research has been conducted using the Archaism description in the mentioned poem based on library resources.