 Kasrai’s version is the first epic poem in Nima Yooshij’s style, or more generally the first epic instance of Persian new poetry.The poem was dedicated to Khosro Roozbeh, a radical leftist executed in early 1958.In spite of what appeared to some as technical weakness, and in spite of the authors’ proposed dissident interpretation, Kasrai’s "Arashe Kamangir" was one of the few contemporary poems to find its way in schoolbooks.