حسین سلیمی

The presence of Mahdi (PBUH) is comprehensive and extensive in the Persian ritual and religious poetry. It is the presence that exists in the most part of the ritual poetry. Issues like disappearance, occultation, reappearance, waiting, his deputies at the time of , occultation are considered in Mahdist poetry. In ancient Persian poetry, Mahdism and waiting are regarded as marginal and insignificant issues and themes. There are few poets who have devoted their poetry and collections of poems completely to Mahdism and reappearance. They dealt with this issue mostly from the an allusive, implicit perspective or through historical references; at times they would ponder over it over a line or a couple of lines. The structure of their Mahdist poetry and literature has a narrative and report-like form and does not stimulate them to dynamism and action. The treatment of the poets with the issue of Mahdism and waiting after the revolution is different; that is, the poems are specifically dedicated to this saint and in them the issue of reappearance is also mostly stated with special seriousness and particular interpretation. In the poets’ poetry before the Islamic revolution, the concept of waiting and Mahdism, is a general and theoretical concept and affection and intimacy are not much felt in the essence of Mahdist poetry while in the poetry of waiting after the revolution the presence of the two above-mentioned points is clearly felt. Hasan seyyed Hosseini is considered one of the most protesting contemporary poets or perhaps the most protesting poet after the revolution. This issue demonstrates the theme and content of his poetry especially in the years after the holy revolution in which the poet witnesses forgetting the values which are the achievements of the revolution and the war. It can be said without any exaggeration that the waiting poetry is the poetry of protest as well; the poetry in which it all the time rages against the current situation and points out to