Bacchanalians, the Closest Genre to Quatrains of Khayyām

The present article studies the themes of the Persian bachanalians in order to find out how much they are similar to the themes in quatrains of Khayām. The 119 examples in memoires of Meykhāne and Peymāne have been analyzed following an analytic method.This article lacks sampling because it did not intend an absolute induction. The findings of the research prove that themes and motifs like carpediem, thanatomania, amazement, and reproaching the fortune, are common in both bacchanalians and quatrains, although the themes in the latter are more philosophical and in concise words, and in the former more mystical and lyrical ad needless of any conciseness. Moreover the writers of bachanalians, by using mystical terms disguised their complains and expressed their objections freely.