Women in the poetry Sepideh Kashani

Abstract

‘Women’ is the one of the subjects that poets and writers have been, since ancient times, most interested in.

Old poets addressed the topic of ‘women’ in their poets mostly as ‘the beloved’. Women’s role was often used to be negative, and become, with the pass of time, more negative. 

In contemporary Persian poetry that witness considerable changes and development, especially the social poetry, women’s role changed accordingly, as they could break their confining frameworks and began to take a different role.

In this study, the researcher considered the position of women in the works of the Iranian poetess Sabeeda Kashani. The features and characteristics of women, be they outer or inner, were discussed with praise or criticism, besides the different roles of women in poetry, the biography of the poetess as a woman, Muslim women and legendary women.