Gazing Through Hannah Arendt at Forugh Farrokhzad An Open Window from Captivity to Liberty: The Poetry of Forugh Farrokhzad

In this article, it is argued that the poetry-life of Forugh Farrokhzad, the Iranian poet passing away in 1967 at the age of thirty-two, befits the action which is one of the three activities of Hannah Arendt s term Vita Activa. The argument is explored through the poetry-life of Forugh Farrokhzad with a view to her life-story and selected poems from the cocoon which will be spinned by the feminist interpretations of Hannah Arendt’s works.