A Comparative Criticism of Women's Freedom in poetry of Soad Al-Sabah and Simin Behbehani

Freedom, women's rights has been an important issue in the last seventy years that was implicated more than ever in much of the literature, especially poetry of such a period. Simin Behbehani, the Iranian poet, concerned the issue of women and women's rights anywhere in his poems .On the other hand, Soad Al-Sabah the Kuwaiti renowned poet, was one of the vanguards of women's rights in the East of the seventies. This study intended to review the feminine expressions of Soad Al-Sabah and Simin Behbehani poems via implementing a critique comparative approach. Both the poems considered the traditional attitudes of the men, and some other social problems and constraints as obstacles of women freedom. Both the poems were so dissatisfied of in and out house division of labor and sex discrimination. They also declared the right to express love sentiment, playing training and educating roles and … as demonstrating indices of women freedom.