comparison of the prophet job’s mask between mahmud darvish and badr shaker sayyab

abstract this study aims to examine the use of religion heritage and application of the prophet job’s character mask. one of the important masks that have been used by contemporary poets is the prophet’s masks, especially the job of which the story exists in the quran. this character is a symbol of patience. darvish and sayyab are the most important poets who used the mask of this character.  each of them used this character to express a special experience. darvish who suffered from occupying his country and getting refugee, used job’s character mask as a symbol for tolerance of that hardship. also, sayyab who suffered from his illness and pain, used job’s character mask as a symbol for tolerance of that hardship. however, their ways differ in how to apply this mask in poems of these two poets. each of them has some traits of this character that are relevant to their own mental conditions.