Patterns of Alienation in Contemporary Iraqi Poetry

Abstract

The successive political events and changes in the Arab world,has contributed to weakening the social and cultural reality. The Arab writer realized the reality of the collapse of the standards and values that govern human behavior and actions, which exacerbated his sense of isolation, loss, and marginalization from existing political and social institutions, which made him face a reality that caused pessimism, despair, and self-destruction, to be directly affected by the alienated reality.Hence we find the expression used by most poets, who moved in this direction in different manifestations and styles, each of them adopted an approach consistent with his life nature and psychological tendencies, as well as his poetic experience.This research seeks to shed light on the most prominent patterns of alienation among contemporary Iraqi poets, within the various events or stations of their lives, whether political, social or cultural.