A Comparative Study of Sylvia Plath and Forugh Farrokhzad in the Light of Showalterian Feminist Viewpoint

The present study is a cross-cultural survey of American Sylvia Plath’s and Iranian ForughFarrokhzad’s poetry in the light of Showalterian feminist viewpoint. Elaine Showalter believes that analyzing women’s works according to the male-constructed theories would result in mere imitation of male discourse and consequently mere silence of women even in evaluating their own works. Thus، she presents a female framework i. e. Gynocriticism. The present writersare to scrutinize some Plath’s and Farrokghzad’s poems according to the above-mentioned framework and come to the conclusion that both poets reject the pre-established norms of patriarchal literature. As two avant-garde poets، they create a literature of themselves on the basis of their female entity and experience.