Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to examine what the influence of the June War of 1967 is on the Fadwa Tuqan's poetic consciousness by analyzing her poetry before and after the War and to clarify the nature of the crisis in the Palestinian feminist literature by examining the critics' evaluation of her works. This study deals with the life of the poet will first be described by examining her autobiography under the premise that an artist's life in the source of her art. Then the themes of her poetry will be analyzed by periods and publishing dates to examine the changes in her poetic consciousness closely before and after the June War of 1967. Also the themes of her socalled 'major works' selected by critics will be analyzed to see how they can be differentiated from those of the poems of her male counterparts. And through this evaluation the nature of the crisis in the Palestinian feminist literature will be explicated.
