آداب الرافدين (Aug 1977)
Features of emotional tendency in Ibrahim Naji's poetry
Abstract
In the first half of this century, the Arab East witnessed a severe impact on the mature intellectual movement that emerged from the nineteenth century in Europe, which in turn exploded from literary currents and artistic doctrines that were the natural fruit of what the scientific and intellectual movement had produced before that century. Our contact with the West resulted in clear restlessness in our different situations, and the result of contacting this movement, our writers and poets were affected by the various literary doctrines that appeared in Europe. But we were affected by those currents and doctrines that had been delayed until the beginning of the twentieth century, because our nation did not possess the psychological preparation or accept currents that might have been foreign to our literary, intellectual and social environment. Our soil was not ready to graze this strange plant before it became acquainted with its color and shape. Moreover, our nation was also busy challenging its reality in its decaying image and nearly lost its authenticity if God had not prepared for it from the causes of life, which made it withstand the harsh events imposed by the Ottomans and others long ago. It happened after that, that our nation received the wind of change coming from Europe with some satisfaction and conviction. Indeed, change among a group of our youth has become a necessity of the requirements of this century, and its changing violent nature. And we found some of us who see in our preservation of our old literary image an undue insistence at a time when the wheel of life in Europe is transforming into a more advanced and mature one. However, this contact and contact with Europe were not the only means that motivated us to restlessness. The situation of our nation in its struggle with backwardness was the first incentive to take the initiative to change the literary and intellectual image. In the impact of its struggle with the foreign occupation and in the face of the brutality and injustice that our youth and men face imposed by the traditional types of government, and in the midst of the winds of change and development that have stormed With the whole human society, and ended with the first great war, in the midst of all that, where humanity was subjected to severe humiliation left by that war and its woes, and the loss of human ideals and the waste of its dignity, and then what happened to our nation as a result of that, from the occupation of our lands, restricting our freedom, and what was struck With it our revolutions, including the setbacks of the 1919 revolution in Egypt and the 1950 revolution in Iraq, all of this overthrew the hopes of the nation, and its impact was reflected on poetry and literature, a negative trend that reflects the souls of writers and embodies the dreams of poets. In addition to all this, the loss of personal aspirations represented by the aspirations of these writers and poets towards a better life, which are special aspirations but part of the aspirations of the nation, had a negative impact on the souls of our writers and poets, as it threw them into the arms of (the disease of the age), which has become a distinct phenomenon of the romantic current in Europe, then it soon came to us after the reasons that led to it were available in our surroundings.
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