Features of Didactic Poetry from Jaheli Epoch to   The Present Time       Javad Gholamali zadeh*   Kobra Roshanfekr**     Abstract   One of the four types of poetry in the literature world is didactic. The purpose of didactic poetry primarily is to teach points about the world and the hereafter. Didactic poetry has specific features that make it different from other types. This kind of poetry has a long history in most nations. However, some believe that didactic poetry lacks the essential features and beauties of poetry and thus is of no value. Although some kinds of didactic poetry lack the essential features, this is not true about all types. This papers has made an attempt to study the history and development of this kind of poetry in Arabic literature     Key words : didactic poetry literary values Arabic literature     * Instructor university of Zabol. E-mail : javad_gh61@yahoo.com .   * * Assistant Professor , Department of Arabic Language and Literature, Tarbiat Moallem . E- mail : kroshan@modares.ac.ir .