Nazik Al Malaika's Life and Her Poetic Common Themes with ParvinEtesami

The present article looks at Nazik Al Malaika's life, – the first theorist of new poetry in Arab world – her works and poetic techniques and then examines some of her poem's themes whichare in common with ParvinEtesami's. The issues like both poets being affected by their time problems, similar family upbringing in terms of literary atmosphere governing both families, both being contemporary in Persian literature and Arabic literature, both knowing a languageother than their mother tongues and their special education along with being influenced by western world's poets and writers, their capacity and innovation both in terms of meaning and format led us to compare the poetry of these two poets

Keywords:

Nazik Al Malaika , ParvinEtesami , common theme , free verse