بدر شاكر السياب: أنشودة المطر || Badr Shaker Al-Sayyab: Song of Rain

Although Assayyab died at the age 38, he was largely responsible for a whole-scale revolution in Arab poetics through his poetic experimentation and innovation at a time of great turmoil in the Arab world – the end of the Second World War and the creation of Israel. Assayyab’s talent allowed him to write poetry that was completely new, both in form and in content, overturning the metrics of classical Arab poetry. He drew on ancient Iraqi and Greek mythologies and wrote about complex issues in simple language with powerful imagery. He was influenced greatly by the English romantic poets, notably Keats, Shelley, Byron and Wordsworth, but above all by his contemporaries in spirit Edith Sitwell (1887-1964) and T S Eliot (1888-1965). Together with fellow Iraqi poets, Nazik al-Malai’ka and Abdul Wahab al-Bayati, the Arab free verse poetry movement gained decisive momentum through the seven collections of Assayyab published in the 1950s and early 1960s, notably the now renowned poem “The Song of the Rain” from his third and highly significant collection of 1960. It is considered by Arab critics and readers to be until now the most important collection of modern Arabic poetry. بدر شاكر السياب ولد في محافظة البصرة في جنوب العراق (25 ديسمبر 1926 - 24 ديسمبر 1964)، شاعر عراقي يعد واحداً من الشعراء المشهورين في الوطن العربي في القرن العشرين، كما يعتبر أحد مؤسسي الشعر الحر في الأدب العربي. #alsayyab #arabic_poetry #الشعر_العربي #بدر_شاكر_السياب #Lisan_Arabi #لسان_عربي