A Study of Resistance Poetry Types in Contemporary Iranian Literature

Resistance poetry is one of the most important literary trends in 100 years of contemporary Iranian period; and few poets who have not works in this field might be found. This huge number of poets and audience with different beliefs has brought about a lot of discussions in resistance poetry, ranging from the enlightenment, protest, labor poems of the constitutional era to partisan, waiting, protest, labor, poems of the Holy Defense period, after the Holy Defense, poems related to the Intifada and Al-Quds, religious and Ashura poems, etc., in the contemporary era. This paper, thus, intends to investigate the subcategories of resistance poetry in the contemporary period divided based on historical periods (the constitutional period, Pahlavi, and the Islamic Revolution), and then to review their subject in order to offer a comprehensive analysis of this trend in poetry, and to reveal that this literary genre has mostly dominated the poetry of the contemporary period of Iran .