“Scientific and Specialized Journal of Modern Literary Research”

“Scientific and Specialized Journal of Modern Literary Research”

Examining the concept and nature of love in Forough Farrokhzad's poems

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
1 Ph.D. Department of Persian Language and Literature, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
2 Professor of the Department of Persian Language and Literature, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Payam Noor University, Tehran Center, Tehran.
Abstract
One of the most frequent topics in the contemporary poets’ Diwans of course, with a new and special method and style, is “love” and everything related to it, and investigating its various aspects with regard to the topics of ontology, cosmology, anthropology, etc. in contemporary poetry requires a large and comprehensive research. From this point of view, Forough Farrokhzad is one of the prominent poets who has an influence on contemporary Persian poetry and in the mentioned field with a new approach in quiddistic knowledge, existentialism, teleology and conscientiousness in the field of love, both in terms of quantity and quality has written many poems. In this article, which has been done by analytical-descriptive method, the author has classified, analyzed and reviewed this poets’ Diwans in the four above-mentioned sections. With a comprehensive look at the subject of love and the approach of this poet, it turns out that, Forough, regarding the ontology of love, believes that in the first period, the creation of the devil and its expulsion from heaven, and in the second period, familiarity with mysticism and revelatory concepts are the most important factors in the emergence of love.
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