Forough Farrokhzad
This research was conducted with the aim of reading Houshang Irani’s poetry based on visual logic. In this case, the poem “Arman-Bookstore” was selected from her poetry books. The basis of this research is the author’s self-development theory called the effect percent matrix, which includes several matrices in the categories of author, textTpsycology and audience. In Arman-bookstore poem’s, deep images are based on random images through sensory function and visualization… more
An author unafraid to defy midcentury attitudes about her gender. “What is important is humanity,” she said, “not being a man or a woman.”… more
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Forough Farrokhzad was born on January 5, 1935 in Tehran into a middle class family of seven children (the third of seven children). She attended public schools through the ninth grade, thereafter graduating from junior high school at the age of fifteen; she transferred to Kamalolmolk Technical School, where she studied dressmaking and painting…. more
Our column Feminize Your Canon explores the lives of underrated and underread female authors. Read Forough Farrokhzad’s poems “After You” and “Window” in our Summer 2020 issue.... more