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Zhaleh was described as an introspected poet; even though she lived in melancholy and gloomy situations, she wrote her poems while breaking the stereotypes and traditions about women. She hid her poetic skills during her life even from her son Pezhman. Pezhman wrote that she spent the later parts of
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Her poetry is mostly autobiographical, a reflection of the tragedies and hardships that she went through in her personal life. She aimed to describe her protests against the stereotypes, beliefs, and expectations prevalent with regards to defending women's rights. In her poetry, she portrays women's
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She was the first female poet who dared to talk about her personal problems. Her poetry was not published for many years. She wrote her poems for herself. She even buried a significant number of her poems. After multiple years since they were written, her son finally collected her poems and got them
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had taken place. During that period of time, Iranian society had held conservative views towards women, as well as their social activities. This made her portray her protesting voice against the submissive role of women in her poetry. This way she helped women of her time get rid of the limitations.
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According to research in national magazines, there were a few or no research conducted into her works and poetry. Even feminist scholars and researchers had not paid enough attention to her. Maryam Khalili Jahantigh and Mahsa Ghadir wrote an article comparing Zhaleh and Emily Dickinson's life and
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After her divorce, Zhaleh continued living in Farahan. Her departure from her child had impacts on her emotions. Her feelings, depression, and gloomy life are all seen in her poems. Her personal hidden feelings are reflected in one of her poems about her son. Thus subjectivity and womanhood first
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with her family in 1938. Her family forced her to marry her father's friend, Alimoradkhan Bakhtiari. Alimorad was working in the military. He was 40 years old. He had daughters from her ex-wife. When Zhaleh married him, the daughters were older than her. After their coercive marriage, Zhaleh gave
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says, "Zhale was married off, at fifteen, to a man she loathed. The cultured and well-educated young woman was completely mismatched with the much older military man, who already had other wives. The death of her parents during the first year of her marriage, and the birth of a son, presumably
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birth to Hossein Pezhman Bakhtiari. After two or three years, Zhaleh got divorced. At first, Hossein lived with his father until he was 27 years old. Then he lived with his mother till the end of his life.
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She died at the age of 63, at 1 PM, 27 September 1947. She was buried in Imamzadeh Hassan, in the western parts of Tehran. Zhaleh was one of the critical and idealistic female poets. When she was 23, the
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published. Asghar Seyed-Gohrab writes that she denied that she was a poet even though a few of her works were published in 1993. He suggests, "She might be called the
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poetry. The article claims that there are similarities between the two poets in terms of their life and experiences, as well as in their poetry.
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Zhaleh was born in 1883 in Farahan to Gohar-Malek and Mirza Fathollah. Mirza Fathollah was the great-grandchild of
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struggles with inequality between the genders in terms of positions and rights.
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Rajabi, Faride (Ph.D student, Academi of Science, Dushanbe, Tajikistan).
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her life reading books about literature, history, and astronauts.
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society which suppressed women and deprived them of their rights.
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compounded the trauma. She did then soon divorce the man."
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was the first translation of her poems into English.
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Persian
romanized
Farahan County
Arak
Iranian
feminist
Ghaem Magham Farahani
Persian
Arabic
Tehran
Asghar Seyed-Gohrab
Persian Constitutional Revolution
patriarchal
Emily Dickinson
Persian poetry
"Mirror of Dew"
"Social and Political Concepts in the Poetry of Female Sonneteers in the Constitutional Era"
cite web
link
"شعر ژاله قائم مقامی و دفاع از حقوق زنان"
cite journal
help
An Iranian Tsvetaeva
The Kenyon Review
Categories
1883 births
1947 deaths
20th-century Iranian poets
Iranian women poets

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