Sorrow in the Poetry of Nazik Al-Mala’ika between the Static andtheChangeable (An Objective Study)

Finjan Saddam, Azhar

	Sorrow in the Poetry of Nazik Al-Mala’ika between the Static andtheChangeable (An Objective Study)
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Article 4, Volume 7, Issue 57, 2011, Pages 31-58 PDF (0 K)
Author
Azhar Finjan Saddam
Abstract
Sorrow is a social and psychological phenomenon that has subjective and objective reasons. It is an inevitable result of the interaction between these reasons and the political, social , economic and psychological state of a person, and his awareness of his surroundings. Sorrow is the prevailing emotion in “Night Adorer” collection. It saturates the organic texture of the poems, and becomes their core. The second core of the collection is love emotion. Therefore, we feel that love in this collection is associated with sorrow and melancholy, and is submerged in mist. Accordingly, it might appear that sorrow is a defect—as often researchers consider—which is not true for many reasons. First, sorrow, like any other emotion, is noble. It has its own motives in conformity with place and time. It might differ in accordance with subjective and objective conditions. Second, in this collection, Nazik Al-Mala’ika has been so truthful to herself and to her reading. Thirdly, what seems as hopelessness, failure or revolution—as we will show later—resulting from that sorrow, is declared or implied in the organic texture of the poem. This means that her aspirations have become wider early in the fifth decade. These aspirations became the core of her later collections,(Tree of the Moon) and (The Sea Changes its Colors), for pain and hopelessness moved to her surroundings, leaving in their place social, national and humanistic sense and gladness. To Nazik Al-Mala’ika, the strongest motives for writing poetry are subjective.
Keywords
Sorrow in the Poetry of Nazik Al; Mala; between the Static and the Changeable; An Objective Study

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