maruf al rosafi is one of the four great iraqi poets. the other three are al zahavi, al kazemi and al shabibi. he was born in baghdad, iraq in 1875. he had learned reading- writing and memorizing quran in traditional iraqi schools and then entered the army college. he could not deal with the courses so had started self studies and went to religious schools. his instructor, alus had motivated hi...

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...

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...

mohammad mahdi javaheri is one of the iraqi greatest poets. most of his poetry expresses social and political concepts. he was interested in national and metropolitan poetry. the resistance notions can be seen in his poetry a lot. hamid sabzvari is also a revolutionary poet. bot poets were originally iranian and both of supporters of oppressed ones and resisted against oppressiveness. resistanc...

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...

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...

A consistent research finding in creativity research has been the tendency of poets— especially female poets—to suffer from mental illness. We explore (a) Why poets? and (b) Why female poets? We posit that poetry may attract those with a predisposition toward illness, the domain of poetry may particularly reward those who exhibit illness, and unusual aspects of the domain of poetry writing may ...

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...

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...

In the poetry creation, poets use many different writing techniques. This paper expounds the image expressions in British love poems and lyrics from four aspects: description, symbolism, figure of speech and personification. Man has been singing for love since written language was invented. Love has been the eternal subject theme of poems and become perpetual singing. Many poets also worship na...