this thesis is an evaluation of poetry of sylvia plath (1932- 1963) and forough farrokhzad (1935-1967) using feminist approach and finds the positive concepts of hope, reason and strength through feminine images in their poetry. plath and farrokhzad are from different cultures and different countries but they share the same concepts and themes in their poetry. by applying feminist theory to their works and finding the same concepts of hope, reason and strength in their poetry they break the boundaries and connect to each other in the world of literature. first it gives a critical biography of plath and farrokhzad. this part is a study of their family, cultural and educational background. the second chapter gives an account of feminist movement in general, and then it assesses poetry of plaths and farrokhzads relationship to the womens movement. it will bring examples from their poetry to prove that plath and farrokhzad are feminist and their poems can be categorized as feminist poems. in order to criticize womanhood as a confinement, farrokhzad in her mask of love challenges the traditional constricting social expectation of womanhood and wifehood while plath scorns conventional submissive and obedient femininity and severely denounces a kind of marriage which alienate and enforce the passivity of women. the third chapter examines concepts of hope, reason and strength in the poetry of plath and farrokhzad. in fact it shows how women in their poetry reflect the three above mentioned concepts. many critics considered only concepts of death, frustration, confusion, emotion and confessional ideas in both plaths and farrokhzads poetry. but the present research proves that there are still positive and hopeful images of women in their poetry. then chapter four is the last part of this thesis. this study examines how the woman poets in their distinctive poetic voice repossess a power to seek liberation from social conformity and reorient and affirm their unconventional poetic selves in the male literary tradition. and also it examines how women are dependent on their intellect and have hope toward life.