Feminine Poetries A survey on the role of female poets in Iran

Subject Areas : Sport Management

بهزاد Khajat ¹ (Department of Literature, Mahshahr Branch Islamic Azad University Mahshar Iran)

Received: 2012-10-20 Accepted : 2013-02-09 Published : 2013-03-21

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Abstract :

Although the number of female poets has been less than man, it is not a good reason to neglecttheir very important role in creating poems and literary works all around the world. All literarymovements seem to have some women with magnificent literary works and very wonderful poems,all the time. In Iran, even in the most traditional historical periods, women had created wonderfulliterary works. It is obvious that social and historical status of men and women poets have been diflferent, in spite of that, their values were not affected by their status. Even most of the time, it couldbe seen that women have been much more kind and affectionate in creating an artistic literary work.The purpose of this article was to show women’s role playing process in creating literary worksfrom the very beginning of the existence of modern poetry. The name of all the female poets andsome of their influential poems were mentioned and their success and failure was discussed too.The author tried not to ignore any well-known name from the list, meanwhile, social concerns ofsuch kind of evolutions was considered.