The Reflection of Freedom in Qahar Assi’s poetry

Freedom as a normative category has been a discussable subject in different comprehensive aspects in Persian poetry and literature from the past to the present. The more we approach to the present time, the more clearly and extremely fruitful freedom can be seen. Modern Persian poetry and literature of Afghanistan has dealt with the bitter experiences of the USSR colonization of Afghanistan and the devastating civil wars alongside social, cultural, economic and governmental changes. Freedom has been thus considered as a key element in the poetry of Qahar Assi, the famous contemporary Afghan poet, in the field of resistance literature which consists comprehensive aspects of social, political, intellectual, national freedom and women’s freedom. The aim of this paper is thus to discuss and examine the expansion of freedom motifs in Qahar Assi’s poems and to find out other factors involved in his poetry.