حسین سلیمی

Social literature which is often referred to as protest literature was the offspring of the early days of the imposed war and during that time this poetry was the expressive voice of the committed poets who were concerned with the future of the revolution and the country and would not approve of silence when one encountered abuse. Even though “Tahereh Rezazadeh” and “Alireza Ghazveh” from among the contemporary poets can be regarded as the pioneers of Protest poetry, most of this type of work can be observed in the poetry of poets like Salman Harati, Gheisar Aminpour and Seyyed Reza Hosseini who have dealt with it in various forms and have pursued it in a particular attitude. Perhaps none of the contemporary committed revolutionary poets has allocated this much of their poetry to the issue of protest and criticizing the losing and forgetting the grand values of the revolution and the war as Seyyed Hosseini has done. From this point he can regarded as one of the most protesting of contemporary revolutionary poets who by the use of most Persian poetry forms especially modern poetry to express his own ideas of protest. In a general categorization, Seyyed Hosseini’s poetry of protest can be studied in three issues which are as follows: 1. protest to the rich owners of the society and neglecting the poor. 2. protest to the forgetting of the days of war and persistence. 3. protest to forgetting the memory of martyrs and abolishing the values. Hosseini depicts all these issues under the religious look or in other words, in a kind of religious fervor and theough this goes on his way to fight and deal with with pseudo-intellectuals of the time.