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Most prominent works of Persian literature have ensued from the formation of a set of common experiences and motifs by one or more generations of artists in the cultural geography of Iran. Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh, Daqiqi’s epic poems, and many other poems by Hafez, Salman Savaji, Khajoo, etc. are examples of this common experiences, which have created lasting artistic motifs in Persian literature. "Abandoning babies on the street" is an effective contemporary motif attended to by Simin Behbahani and Jalal Al-e Ahmad. The authors in this study have investigated this common motif in the narrative poem "Superb" by Simin Behbahani and the short story "Someone Else's Child" by Jalal Al-e Ahmad, to identify their aesthetic aspects, differences and similarities in both form and content. To this end, a descriptive-analytical method was followed to investigate these two works in terms of form and content following a comparative approach. The results showed that Simin Behbahani approached the social romanticism style in creating form with an attractive narrative language, which placed the climax at the end of the narrative, leaving a deep social-spiritual impact on the reader. But Al-e Ahmad inclines towards the school of communism, and emphasizes the originality of the economy, and approaches the literary school of naturalism by ignoring human emotions and uncovering the subtleties of life. In this process, after passing the climax of the story, Al-e Ahmad controls the passivity of the reader's ego with a mild humor, and depicts the relative satisfaction of the woman in the story that is the result of her misrecognition of her human self. In both works, the Iranian woman is severely oppressed. In a patriarchal and tyrannical society, she is forced to abandon her baby on the street despite all her female feelings, emotions and human values and live a painful life thereafter.