A comparative study in political poetry Between Nizar Qabbani and Ahmed Matar

Poetry is always in focus and has always been used for humanitarian purposes. Two prominent Arab poets, Ahmad Matar and Nizar Qabbani, changed the Arab world with their poetic experience and at the same time with the emergence of modern political experiences and the expansion of nationalist and socialist parties, and with the emergence of the Palestinian cause, they clarified the Zionist goals in the region. Therefore, in this study, we intend to compare and analyze the political poetry of Ahmad Matar and Nizar Qabbani. Poems that use irony to criticize power. Therefore, in order to achieve the main purpose of the research, namely recognizing the similarities and differences between the political poetry of Ahmad Matar and Nizar Qabbani and the definition of political poetry and its technical methods by these two poets, using the comparison method and historical approach we discuss their poetic attitude towards authoritarian actions in Arab countries. The most important results of this research are as follows: These two poets are similar in mocking the ruling Arab regimes and their political poetry expresses the tragedy of the Arab people. Ahmad Matar is one of the poets who honestly expresses the pain of the people and according to many critics and writers has found that the use of religious symbols and characters in words or meanings of poetry or prose are a necessity. Nizar Qabbani also uses religious symbols in his political poetry and always blames and ridicules the pro-political religious currents. Among the differences between the two poets is the fact that Ahmad Matar directly mocked the Iraqi government and was forced to immigrate to Kuwait, but we do not see in the case of Nizar Qabbani that the ruling regime was directly mocked in Syria.