Nostalgia Analysis in Forough Farrokhzad’s Poems

Nostalgia is referred to sorrow along with regret whenever one is thinking about an era or an event in the past; in other words, nostalgia is regret and ennui regarding good old days and ardor to go back to those times. This term has been borrowed form psychology and has rooted in human subconscious. Nostalgia is one of the most noticeable subjects in contemporary Persian poems. Forough Farrokhzad is one of the poets whose poems have reflected past regrets and reminiscence. This study aims to investigate the motives of regret and sorrow for the past in her poems through a descriptive-analytical approach. The results show that nostalgic contents such as loneliness sorrow, childhood, beloved, death, and utopia have significant presence in Forough’s poems.