Analyzing the Position of Women in the Poems of Contemporary Kuwaiti Poet Fahd al-Askar

Abstract

In the nineteenth century, women in Arab societies did not enjoy social rights. Kuwait's contemporary poet Fahad al-Askari, and one of the country's freemasons, went to the point of rejecting society in its struggle against the rotten traditions of its society. What Al-Askari has written in his Court about womanhood is divided into four categories: 1- Woman as true mistress; 2- Woman as the poet's imaginary lady; 3- Woman as mother; The most important question to ask is what image does Fahd al-Askari present to the audience in his poems? the results of this study show that since Fahd al-Askari never reached his true lover, the expectation of joining that lover was in his heart for the rest of his life, and the hatred of those who prevented him from joining in his poems surged;  But the lady of the poet's imagination is the ideal woman who rescues her from the darkness and rises to heaven; the poet introduces such a woman as the food of her soul; But the woman as the mother is the only lover and lover who can share her glory, and the poet in the last part of his poems refers to the decaying traditions of her society, such as disrespecting the age-matched marriage of men and not freeing girls in marriage. Choosing their husbands, selling girls because of financial poverty, inequality between men and women. The author examines this issue in a descriptive-analytic manner.