The “Oh, Jewel-Studded Land” addresses the dehumanization of a Iranian population, the wholesale uncritical adoption of western culture, pseudo-intellectualism and the patriarchal system that overemphasizes the glories of the past - all frequent targets of Farrokhzād’s criticism. But here they are external forces, over which the speaker can exert no influence; neither she nor any other individual can alter the world she describes, because they are not supposed to be able to recognize that anything is wrong. Throughout the poem, in various contexts, the regular repetition of the speaker’'s governmentally assigned number emphasizes the connection between the absence of a sense of self and the supposed absence of a sense of the environment. Adopting a heavily sarcastic tone, the speaker imitates the unconsciousness she describes, but she records the actual, rather than the patriotic version of what she sees. In most Farrokhzād poems, this would be a glimmer of light in the darkness, but the poem’s ending suggests a basic incompatibility between an aware person and this society.