Sayaf Hayati , Mohsen Izadyar Ph.D *, Shahrokh Hekmat Ph.D

Complaint is one of the types of lyrical literature that describes the sufferings and failures, internal and social pains of the poet or writer. In the contemporary period, affected by political events and social developments, this type of literature is very impressive in the works of poets of this period. The dictatorship of Shah's regime and its limitations on the society, especially after 28 Mordad coup d'état, caused poets not to forget their social mission and commitment as poets and to write influential social complaints with a symbolic language. Mehdi Akhavan-Sales is one of the poets who has presented social and political issues in his poems and has left lasting complaints by using new symbols. In the upcoming research, which has been done with a descriptive analytical method, Symbolism in the social complaints of Mahdi Akhavan-Sales has been analyzed and investigated. The result of the research shows that he has created his very own social complaints with the subjects such as indifference and neglect of the people, poverty, injustice and inequality, dictatorship and unfavorable social atmosphere, the incompetence of colonial rulers and the domination of foreign governments, the failure of political currents and the killing of freedom fighters, etc, using various symbols.