The Reflection of Female Loneliness in the Patriarchal Society in the Poetry of Simin Behbahani and Fatemah Na'out

The aim of the present study was to investigate the issue of female loneliness in the shadow of patriarchy and its reflection in the poems of Simin Behbahaani and Fatemah Na'out. The research statistical universe subsumed Simin Behbahani's collected poems and "My Name is not Dificult" by Fatemah Na'out. The studied sample included the poems of Simin Behbahaani and Na'out which refer to the subject of loneliness. The research was based on a descriptive-analytical method. The analysis was done by extracting the most obvious manifestations from the reflection of the loneliness problem in the poetry of Simin Behbahaani and Fatemah Na'out and through analyzing and comparison of these feminine and poetic soliloquies. The results showed that what made the common themes more noteworthy in the works of these two poets was living in a more or less similar environment, with limitations and old traditions, and misogyny caused by patriarchy culture that the two Iranian and Egyptian traditional community suffering from. The results also indicated that the isolation of women, their limitations in establishing social relations, deprivation from respect and proper status and the dominance of patriarchy in all relations of family and social life, formed a major part of the concerns of both poets which caused a considerable part of the poems of these two ladies to be dedicated to the representation of female loneliness in the patriarchal society.