Farrokhzad Nihilism Analysis

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Here, she depicts situations and feelings which can cause nihilism, economical causes in father, religious causes in mother, decadence in her brother who studies philosophy due to the destructor philosophy of the time, socialism and communism, and finally her sister’s artificial life in which only her babies are real who, unfortunately, will turn out to artificial people as they grow. At the same time, she refers to other people around the garden, their neighbors. She refers to the countries around who are preparing for war. She expresses her anxiety about those people who have lost their feelings and resorted to nothingness, gunpowder, machine guns and battlefields. She finds herself alone in showing any sense and preoccupation toward the …show more content…

Her poems are the mirror of such ideology. She is disappointed. Referring to her life, she had problems in personal life and social life which certainly were effective in turning her into a nihilist; her family did not pay attention to her art and poetry, her marriage ended in separation and she deprived of seeing her son. On the other hand, she was concerned about the problems of the society. She recognized limitations that were imposed on women and tried to make them familiar with their rights through her poems. Living in such conditions and experiencing failures and suppressions paved the way for her alienation and suffering. In one of her letters, she wrote: “I have always tried to be like a closed door in order that no one can see my horrible internal life” (Jalali 603). She always complains about her loneliness which is accompanied by fear, sorrow and thinking about death and …show more content…

(مجموعه ديوار، اندوه تنهايي )
چون نهالي سست ميلرزد/ روحم از سرماي تنهايي/ ميخزد در ظلمت قلبم/ وحشت دنياي تنهايي (ديوان فروغ، مجموعه ديوار، اندوه تنهايي، 148))
A shadow of despair and disappointment is dominant in all of her collections and it becomes more in her last poems. In a way that she calls herself an addict to the disappointment. She experiences not only the individual disappointment but also the social one.
Hear! / Do you hear the breeze of darkness? / I look at this happiness strangely, / I am addicted to my disappointment.
گوش كن وزش ظلمت را ميشنوي؟ من غريبانه به اين خوشبختي مينگرم من به نوميدي خود معتادم (تولدي ديگر،

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