Parvin etesami farsi tehran

Early in her life the family moved to Tehran, where, in addition to formal schooling, she received solid training in Arabic and classical Persian literature from her father.

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After graduation in from the Iran Bethel, an American high school for girls, she taught for a while at that school. In she was invited to tutor the queen of the new Pahlavi court, but she declined Sheean, p. She accompanied her father on several trips in Persia and one to Iraq. However, after only ten weeks she returned home, and the marriage was dissolved.

She was buried near her father in Qom. Encouraged by her father, she rendered into verse some literary pieces that her father had translated from Western sources. In the protective seclusion of her family life she remained unaffected by, or was perhaps even unaware of, the ongoing reformistic trends in Persian poetry. Shy by nature and isolated by traditional norms of conduct, she never expressed inhibited feelings of love and longing.

It is in this genre that her genius unfolds, creating a large number of its subtlest examples in Persian poetry. Through these figures she holds up a mirror to others showing them the abuses of society and their failure in moral commitment. Likewise, in these debates she eloquently expresses her basic thoughts about life and death, social justice, ethics, education, and the supreme importance of knowledge.

She occasionally loses her calm and gentle temperament and vents a sense of frustration in harsh tone and wrathful words e. She does allow even kings to escape her criticism. A king who steals from his subjects is a beggar Her main concerns revolve around fundamental realities of existence with a depressing undertone of fatalism in human fate.

Nevertheless, she remains a staunch advocate of devotion to work, which she praises as the only principle to which the entire universe is submitted e.