as a modern solution to portrait poets’ emotions, free verse is essentially important. there is a lot of difference in attitude toward the exact date of its arising and disadvantages and advantages in contrast to classic and traditional verse among critiques. some of them believe that arabic free verse is stemmed in acrostic verse – a type of vernacular verse that was appeared in andalusia. oth...

arabic and persian poems have numerous common points and poets of these two languages share the  same point in style, subject, structure and music of poetry. mahdi akhavan thaleth, famous iranian poet, and boland al-heidari, well-known iraqi poet,  are among poets who have many similarities in their works. as an example, there are some conceptual and verbal  similarities between qasedak and sae...

abstract satire is one of the methods of expressing in literature that is used in two ways of direct and indirect. among these two methods, the second one is used more by the poets and writers because it helps them escaping from being face to face with the governments and their organizations. concerning the iraqi government and its cruel policies on those days, using first kind of satire was pr...

yahya alsamavi is one of iraqi's contemporary poets who has experienced iraqis’ predicament in the years of saddam dictatorship and in the following years of american occupation and the false liberty. he is a committed poet has devoted himself honestly to the iraqi people and their sufferings, while he is himself a victim of resistance on ideals and became homelessness. his true feelings r...

when we investigate contemporary poem of iraq and its reformations, we find many poets in literary map of iraq applying their poetic aptitude as an arm to support iraqi nation’s ideal and to struggle against tyrants. ahmed matar, an iragi poet, is one of the most eminent resistance poets recognized as a first class cultural and jihadi person. he has developed important theories about motherland...

the present article is an attempt to familiarize with ashoura political poetry in the iraq contemporary literature. the emphasis is on hassen al senaid poetry as one of the most important remonstrant poets in iraq. the method of reading the revolutionary – political poetry which is related to the iraqi poet is inductive – analytical. the results have shown that the most important aim of the poe...

scientific researches do not know their limits and literary analysis and criticism, as precautionary text, do not take into account any prohibition or warning. the present study is an attempt to study prison poetry in the contemporary iraqi literature, with an emphasis on poet, hassan al sanyd, hence, attempts to analyze the issue of prison in his poems. since, he was one of the political oppon...

ahmad matar – iraqi satirical poet – attempted to save the arabic governments from imperialistic yoke who tried to arrogate nations’ freedom. his poetic language has sensible characteristics which the poet applies them in order to invite people to freedom and liberty. norm breaking is one of his poetry’s features. the present article tries to survey the vocal norm breaking – including rhyme, rh...

motif is a literary device that is usually used to enrich a text. it has not only to do with any recurring element within a literary work but with the creation of certain effects on the reader. the contemporary iraqi poet, yahya samavi, has used motif not only as a decorative device but as a means to convey ideas dominant in his poetry. one of these dominant motives which reflect his life and m...

(1809-49)-American poet, short-story writer, and critic who is best known for his tales of ratiocination, his fantastical horror stories, and his genre-founding detective stories. Poe, whose cloudy personal life is a virtual legend, considered himself primarily a poet. William Wilson (1839)-A tale about a man's struggle with his conscience — an allegory in which William Wilson meets William Wil...