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everything related to the homeland that he was forced to leave, and this is clear in the poem. This is a brief will in which he wished to find a grave. In his homeland when he died, but when he lived he wanted nothing but a small hut in his fields, pointing to the blessings that he would bestow upon Iraq through a letter addressed to his people, recommending it to his people. In it, he forbade them from denying blessings, and commanded them to adhere to it and not accept anything other than it, regardless of what...
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was greatly impressed and influenced by the poetry of Badr Shakir al-Sayyab. Al-Sayyab’s rooms, with his poems that are full of longing for the homeland after his exile from it. The poet was very interested in the smallest details of Iraq and its parts. He was in a constant eagerness and longing for
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They enjoy blessings from which he was deprived, and he spent his life seeking them. Then he concludes his poem by pointing out the rights of the homeland over its children. It is sufficient that he was created from his own soil and manna; So that this would be a sufficient reason for gratitude for
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Returning to Iraq, al-Sayyab was given a job at the Iraqi Ports
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the blessings, and eternal nostalgia and burning longing for Him.
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to undertake a PhD, but was not able to do so. Admitted to
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Basr Shakir al-Sayyab was born in Jaykur, a town south of
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and he also thought about registering as a student at
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212:he wrote poetry critical of the new head of state
188:in 1953. This journey was the subject of his poem
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