The significance and symbolism of place in Badr Shakir al-Sayyab's poetry

Abstract

Our body, Al-Sayyab, has embodied through his poems images of different spaces. The place of place in all his poems is an essential element, and a symbol of light, Norman, with its multiple fingerprints, in which the ideas of presence, absence, and purification appear. At the same time, he drew our attention to the phenomenon of longing for lost places, in addition to the formation of the mythical dimension in all his poems through the mythical and historical symbols that he gave connotations and suggestions that expressed his feeling of alienation, suffering and pain towards his homeland in a style that transcended reality. Pointing out the importance of place when we see it reflecting the relationship between the self and the community, and when it expresses individual alienation and collective belonging simultaneously, Al-Sayyab expressed place through his poems in various complex images that reflect the reality of the tension between past and present, between reality and imagination. Place was not a reflection of Al-Sayyab's self, but rather a voice that expressed the pain of others and addressed the issues of society.