The period from the 1920s to the 1940s was a dark period in Iran’s modern history. King Reza of the Pahlavi dynasty implemented a repressive policy and banned progressive publications. Influential poets and writers were either imprisoned and exiled or fled abroad. Bahar, Alef Qazwini (1882-1934), Eshki (1893-1924) and Farosi Yezidi (1889-1939) were the leaders of the modern Iranian poetry fighting tradition in this period. Outstanding representatives, they tenaciously created and fought in the dark ages, and suffered all kinds of persecution.
The works of another group of poets of the same period were more sad than angry. Although there is no lack of human misfortune and pain in their works, they lack the courage to fight and the call to fight. Their poems pay attention to rhythm and vocabulary, and more formally inherit the tradition of Persian classical poetry. The main representatives of this type of poets are Iraj Mirza (1874-1924) and Parveen Etsamy (1906-1941). Nima Yushji (1897-1960) was a representative of the literary reformists after the constitutional movement. He advocated using the people's language to express people's lives and advocated free-style poetry in the form of poetry.