Homeland and Independence in The Poetry of The Iraiı Abdulmuhsin Al-Kâzımî
Abdulmuhsin al-Kâzimî is one of the leading poets of modern Iraqi poetry. He had lived in Iraq in his youth until he had to immigrate to Egypt due to his oppositional thoughts to the government of the time. During his time in Egypt, he established friendships with many politicians, writers, and poet...
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| Language: | Arabic |
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Istanbul University Press
2023-04-01
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| Series: | Şarkiyat Mecmuası |
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| Online Access: | https://cdn.istanbul.edu.tr/file/JTA6CLJ8T5/4BB47817BA8E4D66B1F34A2A76EE5F86 |
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| Summary: | Abdulmuhsin al-Kâzimî is one of the leading poets of modern Iraqi poetry. He had lived in Iraq in his youth until he had to immigrate to Egypt due to his oppositional thoughts to the government of the time. During his time in Egypt, he established friendships with many politicians, writers, and poets and managed to become one of the leading poets of the period. He wrote many politically and socially themed poems in which he examined the problems of the Arab society and expressed the problems experienced by all Arab peoples, especially Iraqis.This article discusses Kâzimî’s poems that contain the themes of homeland and independence and provides information about his life and poetry. Th article examines his poems containing the theme of homeland in terms of longing for the homeland and being a martyr for the sake of the homeland. In these poems, Kâzimî expressed his longing for Iraq and his friends and family that he had to leave at a young age, reflecting his homesickness with sad verses. The article then evaluates his poems about independence through the themes of struggle for independence and unity against colonial powers. He also encouraged martyrdom for the sake of the homeland in the struggle for independence and glorified the concepts of martyrdom and sacrifice. In fact, the poet called upon the Arab peoples who’d been exploited under the guise of the mandate to fight for independence in these poems and stated that independence can be gained by struggling in unity. Kâzimî became prominent for his nationalist identity and made arguing for the need for all Arabs to gather under one homeland and one flag his aim, and the literary world of the period gave him the title of Şâʿiru’l-ʿArab [Poet of the Arabs] for this. |
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| ISSN: | 2717-6916 |