A COMPARISON OF SOCIAL THEMES IN THE POETRY OF PARVIN ETESAMI AND AHMAD SAFI AL-NAJAFI

In the past century of the contemporary world، some nations have had similar destinations and thus similar social issues. Advocating society has been a major trend in poetry and many contemporary Iranian and Iraqi poets have been under the impacts of social movements and thus have reflected these issues in their poetry. The present article studies and compares the social issues reflected in the works of two contemporary poets namely Parvin Etesamiand Ahmad Aafi Al-Najafi. Despite all the differences they have due to being of different genders، they have discussed themes like patriotism، liberalism، defending the poor andfighting oppression.