Her books of the 1960s and the 1970s focused on the history of the Armenian people and their future, which she always depicted in optimistic pictures. In 19 she published two travel books, which are accounts of her visits to the Armenian communities of the Middle East, largely composed of genocide survivors and their descendants, and North America. In 1962– she traveled throughout Armenian diaspora communities in the Middle East (Lebanon, Syria, Egypt) and North America (United States and Canada). The last verse goes: "Look, my son, wherever you are, / Wherever you go under this moon, / Even if you forget your mother, / Do not forget your Mother tongue." Her well-known poem, "A word to my son", became a "standard verse in asserting national identity". Two main themes of her works were the national identity and lyric poetry. Her first major publication, a collection of poems, appeared in 1945. In 1941 she became a member of the Writers Union of Armenia. She made her literary debut in the early 1930s and published her first poem in 1933. She joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1945. She attended the Faculty of Armenian Philology Yerevan State University from 1936 and graduated in 1941, and subsequently studied at the Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Soviet Academy of Sciences from 1949 to 1950. She was raised by her mother and grandmother. Her father, Barunak, was a member of the nationalist Dashnaktsutyun party and died of cholera three months before her birth. Born Sirvard Kaputikyan on 20 January 1919 to parents from the historically Armenian-populated city of Van (in the historic Western Armenia, present-day Turkey), she was raised in Yerevan, the capital city of Armenia.
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