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Diagnosing Forough Farrokhzad with bipolar disorder based on her poetry is a weak argument, for a poem is not a precise mirror of the poet's mental state. Rather than positing a mental illness, her lived world can be understood as a philosophical reading of simultaneous decay, hope, and self-creation.
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