Abstract
The social symbolism movement is a newly emerging trend in contemporary Persian poetry.
Although this movement seems to be related to the school of symbolism that occurred in France
at the end of the 18th century, this relationship is very weak. In fact, the social symbolism
movement is more close to allegorical and symbolic poems in traditional poetry, with two
prominent features: symbolization and socialism. The authors study these two features of the
social symbolism movement in the poetry collection of "Prayer of a Woman on the Road" by
Seyyed Ali Salehi, a contemporary Iranian poet. In the symbolism section, several important
symbols in his poetries are analyzed, including the child, butterfly, night and morning, wind,
traveler, and shirt. Regarding the second feature, socialism, it has been tried to analyze this
feature in Salehi's committed social poems. First, the data were collected from library sources
and then analyzed in the collection of "Prayers of a Woman on the Road" (first edition: 2000).
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