The poem in the memory of the deposed king of Walid Al–Sarraf

Abstract

Modern poetry is a world of knowledge, and it is not only an imitation of the old, but it has invested in the modern cosmic landmarks, imitating them, and competing with the seas of poetry and rhyme, perhaps giving the modern image some of the richness and sweetness of ancient poetry. The beginning of the poem, and the goal of those beginnings (Al-Matla’), is to attract and fascinate the reader, so that he can taste in vertical poetry the sweetness of originality and beauty.In her writings, he always opened with a verse of the ancient poets, because he is a strong believer in their writing, and he wants to complete the idea that they want to reach for those who read the poem. He loves modernity very much and always says that there must be renewal and modernization in the poem in order to reach all the different intellectual classes.He also mentioned that his various potions take a great deal of time to be born naturally, and he cares about the content of the message, and modernity from the heart of the past, as he put it.The teller had many different poems, especially the poem (Iraq Died), in which he mentioned the ancient civilizations of Iraq and what he sees of the death of homelands, and he asks about the place where the lands of the homeland are buried, as a result of the scourge that happened in it.He also wrote many poems from (The Memory of the Deposed King), (The Court of a Poet), (Her Dress), (A Broker in Souk Okaz), (Tears of Praise and others). The poet Walid al-Sarraf believes that poetry is a blaze of fire that is extinguished on the way between two languages, and its translation is guillotine, from which the text enters alive and from which a corpse emerges..!Walid Al-Sarraf is an Iraqi poet and short story writer, born in Mosul in 1964. He holds a doctorate in ear, nose and throat surgery. He is considered one of the most important and prominent contemporary Iraqi poets. A book was published by the Arab Writers Union in Damascus entitled “Memory of the Deposed King” in 1999. He has a collection of short stories entitled “Stories for Oblivion,” and another issued by the Arab Writers Union in Damascus in 2008 entitled “With an apology for the Thousand and One Nights.” He also has more From a manuscript.Many Iraqi and Arab critics and poets have written about him, and many university theses have discussed his poetry. The dialogue below is an attempt to enter the worlds of the poet Walid Al-Sarraf, who declared that there is an invisible mafia that rules publishing laws and platforms, and that a draft of a rejected poem may be more important than millions of printed pages.