A Comparative Study Of Social Approches In The Poetry Of Suad Al-Sabah And Parvin Etessami

Souad al-Mubarak al-Sabah (born 1942) and Parvin Etessami (1907 – 1941) were of those poets who had used social themes in their poetry. Poverty, liberalism, and fight against despotism were social themes found in their poems. Using descriptive-analytical method and based on the French school of poetry, the authors of the present research intended  to make a comparative study of social themes in the poems of Souad al-Sabah and Parvin Etessami. Souad al-Sabah and Parvin Etessami had approached to poverty from different views; Souad only made hints to it, but Parvin tried to find its roots. On patriotism, more poems of Souad were concerned with fight against despotism than Parvin’s due to the invasion of Kuwait by Iraq. Liberalism was a theme used by both of them in two pictures; Souad depicted it as a well while Parvin had depicted it as a cage.