Nizar Qabbani's Women in his poetry

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Abstract

This research includes a study inspired by a sweet poem - It is intoxication - by the Iraqi poet Saadi Youssef (1934- 2021),  Which also left in the mind a similar and true expression of Nizar Qabbani’s women, and if the Italian modernist painter Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920) painted them in his paintings - in the form of the nude model and the portrait - with long, exposed necks, flat faces, and almond-shaped eyes, how narrow they are in shape, and how wide they stare in a suppressed desire, and how intensely they spread an atmosphere of gloominess, depression, and bohemianism. If Modigliani did all of that with his women, and allowed the critic of his paintings to interrogate them psychologically and emotionally, then Nizar in his poems drew his women with words and embodied them in their social types, and described them in their desired and realistic existence. So they are: the student, the tyrant, the newspaper reader, the existentialist, the Beiruti, the café goer, the manicure girl, and the indifferent rebel, which prepares the reader to interrogate the poems that included these women with an interrogation tinged with the reality of the social class to which Qabbani sought to belong, and in which he settled, rejecting others, and the evidence in the stages of his life and poetic experience is sufficient for us. And this research consists of an introduction that sheds light on the purpose of what was written in it, followed by two paragraphs: Nizar and his feminist subject, Nizar’s women and their class through his poems, and the summary.