Manifestations of the family in Al-Sayyab’s poetry

Abstract

The poet Badr Shaker Al-Sayyab, an Iraqi poet who was born in 1926 and died in 1964, had a major role in renewing contemporary Arabic poetry and is considered one of its founding pioneers. The family played a major and influential role in shaping his personality, as it influenced all poetry and its influence on his poetry. As the family and upbringing are the rural environment and the difficult childhood after the death of his mother when he was six years old, as this incident greatly affected the poet’s life. The loss of his mother and the pain , The psychological aspect became and became a major topic in his poems that reflected the features of sadness. From family experiences, Al-Sayyab was raised in a family that cared about traditions and values. Education increased his intellectual and literary aspirations, and his older family members played a role in his acquaintance with literature and poetry and supporting him in his creative career, in addition to the influences Emotional, as it affected personal and emotional relationships. The wife and children often became a great source of inspiration. He had an intertwined life related to emotion, loss, and love. Emotion provided him with moral support because in the poet’s life there was a lot of poverty, illness, and destitution, as these reflections were clearly found in His poetry, which added human depth to his works.