Levering Hall Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. It’s the loving that I love.”-Forough Farrokhzad. 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. Farrokhzad died in a road accident, returning from lunch at her mother’s house, on Feb. 14, 1967. My nights are painted bright with your dream sweet love and heavy with your fragrance is my breast. Her poetry was the poetry of protest– protest through revelation– revelation of the innermost world of women (considered taboo until then), their intimate secrets and desires, their sorrows, longings, aspirations and at times even their articulation through silence. With a tumultuous love life that saw her become one of Iran’s most controversial and scandalous public figures, Farrokhzād suffered under the glaring public eye. Expressing her thoughts on discrimination and inequality, Forough described Iranian women’s untold suffering. In 1964, Farrokhzad published her landmark collection, “Another Birth,” which included cutting social commentary and established her among the great voices of Persian literary modernism. After the overthrow of Iran’s secular monarchy in 1979, the Islamic Republic banned her poetry for almost a decade. Maintained by: Both men and women, she believed, suffered from the gender inequities of society. She wrote with intensity about her subjective experience: ‘One can always be a zero,’ reads a line in this poem, Wind-Up Doll, which rails against the experience of living with ‘lifeless eyes’ and ‘stiff claws’, inside a ‘felt box, body stuffed with straw.’ Her father was an army colonel and her mother a homemaker. She later described the collection as coming “between two different stages of life, the last gasp before a kind of liberation.” Her poems, a few of which called for the “rising up” of women against centuries of injustice, were aimed at the Iranian concept of manhood. In 1950's Tehran, in Iran, Forough Farrokhzad is 16 years old and has just gotten married to her cousin Parviz Shapour, against her family's will. She attended public schools through the ninth grade, At age 15 she graduated from Junior High School and went on to study dressmaking and painting at Kamalolmolk Technical School. Swill a few glasses of mixed-up Pepsi-Cola. Poems such as “Reborn”, “The Wind Will Take Us”, “Sin” and “Let us believe in the dawn of the cold season” left an unmistakeably unique and indelible mark on Middle Eastern literature. Forugh Farrokhzad (1935–1967) was an Iranian poet and filmmaker. I do not think of the end. In a deeply traditional society, marriage gave her a degree of freedom, her first biographer in English, Michael C. Hillman, wrote in “A Lonely Woman: Forugh Farrokhzad and Her Poetry” (1987), using a variant spelling of her first name. Addressing rumors of her madness, a Tehran magazine quoted the medieval writer al-Tha’labi; “Heaven forbid the day when the daughters of Eve, who are lacking a rib, become poets, and beware the day they go mad.”. feminist poet 1935-1967 To promote love and beauty of human nature My nights are painted bright with your dream, sweet love and heavy with your fragrance is my breast. The title poem of her third collection, “Rebellion,” published in the spring of 1958, set out her determination to write verse and live freely. Forough Farrokhzad This page was last edited on 31 Decemberat I love your hands. Forough Farrokhzad. Her published works include The Captive, The Wall, Rebellion, Reborn, and Let Us Believe in the Dawn of the Cold Season. They moved to the southern city of Ahvaz, where Shapur worked for the Ministry of Finance. Her separation from her son continued to torment her. It’s me, Shideh. The poetry flowed beautiful. A month later, in September 1955, she suffered a mental breakdown. Forough Farrokhzad. Hi, There! Forugh Farrokhzad was a poet of great audacity and extraordinary talent. you are the heartbeat of my burning body; a fire blazing in the shade of my eyelashes. Well, I was just reading on, and did not realize that these were your own translations until later. It Is Only Sound That Remains: Reconstructing Forough Farrokhzad’s The House Is Black. Forugh, one of the most famous Persian Women poets died in a car crash February 13, 1967 at the young age of 32. Forough Farrokhzad’s Early Life. Sholeh Wolpé (from Sin: Selected Poems of Forugh Farrokhzad, Univ. Inside eternal hours one can fix lifeless eyes on the smoke of a cigarette, on a cup’s form, In the afterword to “Captive” (1955), her first poetry collection, Farrokhzad wrote, “Perhaps because no woman before me took steps toward breaking the shackles binding women’s hands and feet, and because I am the first to do so, they have made such a controversy out of me.”. Narrated by Farrokhzad with her own verses, the film portrays the colony as an allegory for Iranian society. 269 likes. In 1956, after her recovery, Farrokhzad left Iran for the first time, traveling to Europe and remaining there for nine months.