Existentialist insights into Al-Saadi’s poetry

Abstract

The experience of the Iraqi poet Arif Al-Saadi (1975) was and will continue to be one of anxiety that continued to preoccupy his mind from the first moments of this experience, until this anxiety grew and crystallized, and he witnessed visionary developments at the level of proposition and idea. It became a dominant trend that spread its wings over all of his subsequent poetic experiences. It is anxiety. What was produced by the confusion of the poet (the human being) when he is forced to exist, forced on his journey between life and death, and therefore he is forced to ask questions and visions that have no answers, and he is possessed by a great and continuous anxiety that can only be comprehended by the illusion lurking in the deep depths of the human soul, which is perplexed by its questions and existential visions. The terrifying. Thus, he is forced to pose questions and visions that have no answers, and he is possessed by a great and constant anxiety that can only be comprehended by the illusion lurking in the deep depths of the human soul, bewildered by its questions and terrifying existential visions. All of this is presented to us by Al-Saadi in a language in which thought is mixed with emotion until his text becomes a beloved poetic text that possesses a high poetic flow.