The reflection of historical events of the 1330s in Iranian calendar, due to their special importance in Iran’s contemporary history, is one of the issues which have always been considered by intellectuals, scholars and committed poets of that decade. Government's dominance and its widespread repression are the most important reasons for the committed poets of 1330s to use symbolic expressions. While Nima is considered as the pioneer of contemporary symbolists, Mehdi Akhavan Salis, who is one of the committed poets, has greatly put this way of expression into focus of attention. The result of this study shows that he has used public and personal symbols to express the events and to inform the following generations about them. The high frequency of personal symbols in Akhavan Salis’s poems reflects his poetic sense and passion to speak of social problems. The study was carried out through a descriptive method and data was gathered and analyzed by library research.
