Complaint in Parviz Natel Khanlari’s “Moon in Marsh" Poetry Collection

The study of lyrical literature types and their usage in the poems of contemporary poets can help us for understanding novel concepts in poets’ notions and poetries. One of the genres of this category is “complaint”. A great number of themes of the Persian poetries consist of the expression of personal pains and sufferings; human beings can experience sadness and sorrow as well as all other feelings like happiness. Since poets are highly sensitive people, they have been affected the most by this issue and scrutinized it. Although complaints have been used in all the periods of Persian poetry, in contemporary poetry because of political and social issues and the emergence of Nimai modern poetry, poets’ perspectives about them are different. The main purpose of the present study was to examine complaints used in an anthology of poems named “Mah dar mordab” (Moon in Marsh) written by Parviz Khanlari. Although the results of the study indicated that a large portion of the poet’s complaints were personal complaints, there are also cases of other types of complaints in his poems including social sufferings, objection to anti-values, dissatisfaction with life, political repression, and absence of freedom.