Inspection and analysis of Epicureanism in Anvari’s poetry

The recent study seeks to inspect and analyze Epicureanism in Anvari’s poetry. Epicureanism, derived from the name of the Greek philosopher- Epicurus- is the name of a philosophy school mainly formed based on pleasure. Epicurus’s desired pleasure was the absence of pain. The most important foundations of Epicurus's thought are a reasonable selection of pleasures, durability, and survival of pleasures, preference of pleasures of the mind to physical pleasures, the satisfaction of natural and essential desires, reaching mental peace, taking the opportunity, contentment and changeability of destiny. In this research, the author seeks to answer this question whether, according to the components of the Epicureanism school, Anvari can be called an epicurean. As it comes from his poems, Anwari was one of those poets who had a happy and enjoyable life, and his ethical thoughts are supposedly similar to Epicurus. In order to answer the research question, Anvari's book of poem (Diwan) was studied with regard to the components of the school in question by means of strong induction and research data was inspected using a descriptive-analytic method. The result of the research suggests that Anvari's ethical thoughts, in features such as seizing the day, taking advantage of tools and methods of achieving pleasure, changeability of the destiny, contentment, and tolerating suffering to achieve lasting enjoyment is consistent with Epicurus’s philosophy.