Humanitarian Features of Badr Shaker Sayyab’s Poetry: Form and Content

Abstract

We are accompanied with poetry long period of time. And we do exchange our feelings and emotions with poetry as we complain to it, and in return it complains to us. It gives us trance of victor. Poetry penetrates in all detail of our life. Poetry has become to depict our dreams, our hopes, and it is a mirror that reflects our ambitions and views. Poetry is a treasure that we inherited from our grandfathers. Through poetry we have studied the history and achievements of our ancestors in different times and ages. We have realized how feelings of pre-Islamic poet was at that time and how he or she did think, express his or her thoughts, beliefs and views through the gained experiences. The toughness of our life nowadays that we face daily pushed the modern poet to continuous confrontation using all his ability to win and defeat his competitors. Therefore, this research paper attempts to spotlight on one of Iraqi modern leading poets who played a vital role in addressing the major humanitarian issues, starting from his small community, Badr Shaker Al Syabb , a great poet who had passed away at a young age which prevented him from achieving his creativities. The research depends on a methodology that focuses on the poems of the poet in his writing which tackles part of the poet’s humanitarian’s concerns. It also dwells on the effort that the poet put in presenting his interests from artistic aspects. However the poem is interesting and distinguished, it does not touch the feeling of the human being if the poet does not interact with its meaning.