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Wyobrażenia czasu we współczesnej poezji arabskiej na przykładzie twórczości Bulanda al-Hajadariego

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Maśko A.

Przegląd Orientalistyczny

2014

issue 1-2

43-60

The aim of this paper is to examine the representations of time in the works of the Iraqi poet of Kurdish origin Buland al-Haydari (1926–1996). The paper opens with a short introduction dealing with the perception of time in reality and in literature (i.e. objective and subjective time, individual and social time) as well as with an outline of representations of time in the Arabic poetry in certain historical and literary periods (pre-Islamic Arabic poetry, classical Arabic poetry, romantic Arabic poetry before the Second World War, contemporary Arabic poetry after the Second World War). The analysis of Al-Haydari’s poetry consists of three parts concerning the past, the present and the future. In each part, poems from different phases, written between the 1940s and the 1990s, were taken into consideration. Each part discusses how the tendencies prevalent in these phases (i.e. romantic, existential, committed poetry) as well as in Al-Haydari’s life (i.e. exile) and in socio-political life of the Iraqi community (i.e. dictatorship, wars) influenced the images of time in his lyrics. There are many representations of time in Al-Haydari’s poetry. It can be linear, circular, cyclical, internal and psychological, external and objective, individual and social. The past, the present and the future are depicted in his works in different, sometimes contrary ways. The past is associated with sadness and vanishing but also with happiness and childhood. The vision of the present is pessimistic in all the phases and it is featured as meaningless, overwhelming, terrifying as well as brutal. The future is sometimes represented as despairing and lost, and sometimes as carrying hope. The time in Al-Haydari’s poems seems to be an impersonal force or a personified fate. Quite often it is given human characteristics, both psychical and physical. Some of the representations of time in Al-Haydari’s works reveal similarities to those known from the pre-Islamic, classical, romantic and contemporary Arabic poetry.

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Wyobrażenia czasu we współczesnej poezji arabskiej na przykładzie twórczości Bulanda al-Hajadariego