Analysis and Categorization of National Identity of Persian speakers in Poetry and Thought of Golrokhsar Safieva

Nowadays, Persian-speakers are solely the inhabitants of Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan. In spite of different nationality, the people of these three countries belong to the same culture. Thus the main objective of the current research would be the analysis of national identity of Persian-speakers in the poetic heritage of Gulrukhsor Safieva (born in 1947); Tajik contemporary poet. According to theoretical of Romanticism, the author has analyzed and classified national identity of Iranian people into five major categories including: native land (Ariana), mythic and national system (nation of sun (, national origin (Iran and Turan), national language (native language), national masterpiece (Shahnameh and its reproduction). The analysis of poets’ divan showed that tendency to refer to the macro-structures of national identity has been in constant relationship with socio-historical context of poets’ lifetime. This tendency has been highly significant in the period of independence and influenced the poet ideational and mental evolution.