Abstract
This article examines the socio-artistic factors that have shaped modern English-language and Uzbek women’s poetry in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Women poets in both literary traditions have used poetry as a means of expressing personal experience, social identity, cultural memory, and resistance to traditional limitations. The study aims to identify the major social influences—such as gender roles, family expectations, historical change, globalization, education, and the struggle for equality—as well as artistic factors including symbolism, free verse, lyrical subjectivity, intertextuality, and experimentation with poetic form.
Using a comparative literary approach, the research analyzes selected works of contemporary women poets from English-language literature and modern Uzbek poetry. Particular attention is given to the ways poets transform private emotions into universal artistic statements and how they negotiate issues of identity, love, motherhood, alienation, and self-realization. In English-language poetry, many women writers foreground psychological depth, individual freedom, and feminist consciousness, while Uzbek women poets often combine personal lyricism with national values, spiritual heritage, and social responsibility.
The findings demonstrate that despite cultural and historical differences, both traditions reveal common tendencies: the search for an authentic female voice, the reinterpretation of inherited poetic forms, and the use of poetry as a space for self-expression and social commentary. At the same time, each literary context preserves its own distinctive imagery, themes, and aesthetic priorities. The article concludes that socio-artistic factors play a decisive role in shaping women’s poetic discourse and in expanding the place of female authorship in contemporary world literature.