Man and woman are each others' anima and animus. According to a myth narrated by Aristophanes, man and woman are completed after they find each other. The writer of this article first discusses anima and animus that are inner feminine and masculine parts of man's and woman's personalities in. analytic psychology of C. G. Jung. He then traces the descriptive line of the above mentioned aspects in the poetical works of two contemporary poets, Shamloo and Forough and compares them.