Akhavan's life and poems can be studied in three stages: The first stage (the pre-coup period); the middle stage (from the Coup to 1965); and the last stage (from 1966 to his death). Arghanun as well as some of his pre-coup poems, all in quatrain and classical style, are materials for the study of the first stage. The middle stage, Akhavan's most creative period, produces Winter, The Ending of the Shāhnāmeh, and From This Avesta. In this period, Akhavan is the greatest Iranian poet in writing social epic poems in symbolic style. Winter, The Ending of the Shāhnāmeh, The Tale of Sangestān City, and some other poems, written under the impact of 1953 Coup, are the outcomes of this period. The last stage, during which Akhavan writes In Autumn' Small Yard in Prison, Life Dictates: Still We Must Live, Hell but Freezing, and other poems, is the poet's decline period. At the end of this stage, by writing O You Ancient Land, I Love you, once again, the poet comes back to his early classical style.