Symbol and symbolization in Badr Shaker Al-Sayyab's epic poems

poems of the rain

Abstract

When a poet is chosen from the poets of Iraq, the priorities are for what the poet lived from the issues of his homeland, so his personal suffering mixes with the suffering of his homeland and the people who live in it, and Al-Sayyab is one of the poets whose personal psychological and physiological suffering was very large, and this suffering was reflected in his poetry and in his poems Which invited him to see and navigate the purposes of poetry and the strong desire within him to find a distinct style that differs from the old style in writing the poetic poem, and this choice was not arbitrary, but for his firm conviction that the old style does not carry in its internal structure to provide a poem in which the symbol is strong and prominent, a poem that expresses the same Khaljat, and so his poetic lengths were full of symbol, starting towards building a poetic image with high potential in Flying in the vast space of the homeland, the homeland that death quickly disappeared from its sight, so it was the Gulf, the rain and the women who suffer under hunger and have no ...