The most important aspect in the study of a literary text as a form of sociocultural communication is the identification of its social orientation, the ability to generate ideas and influence their active functioning in the social space. The article deals with the socio-political aspect of the Forough Farrokhzad lyrics. She was the brightest representative of the new style in Persian poetry known as «she’r-e now» («new poetry»). The tools of feminist literary criticism were used as methodological basis of the work. During the study, all the poetic material of Forough Farrokhzad was analyzed, and some of the presented poetic passages were translated to Russian for the first time by the author of this article.