نفیسه نیک خواه

Paviz Natel Khanlari is one of the prominent faces of the persio culture and literature in the contemporary periods. The most selected poetical collection of Khanlari is "The Moon in lagoon" and the most well-known his poem is a poetical song with the title of "eagle" in 1318 which consists of new understanding from the old narrative in form of Mathnavi (couplet poet) pattern. This poem possesses eloquence and lingual characteristics and unique characterization which has distinguished that from other poems. Furthermore, the mental atmosphere dominant on this work includes expressing powers which had ever been in struggle within Khanlari and sometimes one had preference over the other, but he couldn’t t never reject truth and humanity.

One of the characteristics of a good poem is ornamenting it with literary figures. Simile is one of these figures that are found not only in formal Persian poems, but also in children spoems. Since children sworld is the world of imagination, simile can be used to take them to that world. But, not every simile can be suitable for children so a poet, who is familiar with children s spirits, can register his/her thoughts in children spoem. In this paper, in addition to analyzing thirty books of children spoem and introducing similes in them, different kinds of simile in children s poem are investigated. Each kind of simile and their place in children s poem are also discussed.