Women in Ali Al-Fazzani's poetry

Authors

  • Ahmad Muhammd Aljerm Misurata University

Keywords:

Modern poetry,, Ali_Alfzzani, woman.

Abstract

For years, I have been reading the poetry of Ali Al-Fazzani, and I have been deeply impressed by his vast cultural knowledge and his pioneering, distinctive poetic experience—simple from a global perspective, yet profound and significant in the local context. He is a poet who tasted the bitterness of life before its sweetness, a man burdened by the concerns of his homeland, his nation, and humanity as a whole. This life, which was never favorable at any point, is described by the poet himself when he says: "It was harsh to the extreme. My childhood was, by no means, a good one—a childhood of deprivation, poverty, and affliction, lived in a world full of decay and hatred. When the time came, I breathed through my poems, with words soaked in pessimism and sorrow." A poet in such a condition would not be expected to give much attention to women. Yet, as I browsed through his collections from time to time, I found that he speaks of women in most of his poems. But which woman is he speaking of? Is she the real woman? Or is she a symbol of something else?

Published

2017-06-01

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