Comparative Analysis of the Theme of Complaint in the Couplets of Mazandaran and Khorasan Popular Literature

Complaint is one of the main types of lyrical literature. Poets, who see their existence as tarnished and even loved, express their biographies in the language of complaint and express their intellectual pain, failures, sufferings and disappointments. This descriptive-analytical research intends to investigate the theme of complaint in the popular couplets of Mazandaran and Khorasan. By studying more than 3000 popular couplets in Mazandaran and Khorasan, 435 couplets, that is about14.5% of the complaint theme, were discovered. These glories are divided into two categories in terms of content: personal and philosophical. Based on the research findings, it can be said that in Khorasan, the lover complains about the unfaithfulness of the beloved, and in Mazandaran, the complaint about the grief of homelessness has the highest frequency. In other complaints, such as complaints about the sorrow of love, homesickness, military service, parents, a love rival, loneliness, co an unfaithful woman, bad luck, the times, and God. The statistics of complaints in the two provinces are close to each other.