Iranians highly value their poets who kept their culture and language alive even during numerous invasions.
Persian poets express their creativity in different forms and styles.
The earliest poetry was of two types. One was the ballad and the other was the epic. The ballad later developed into different forms such as lyric, hymn, satire and panegyric. The epic poem is an enlarged ballad. Therefore, the origin of all poetry is in the ballad although no records have remained from these primitive ballads.