The Image of the Mother as an Elegy In Modern Iraqi Poetry

Abstract

Lamentation is one of the beautiful poetic arts in human literature, and in our immortal Arabic literature, throughout its ages, and it is a major theme of Arabic poetry in the pre-Islamic era. The poet lamented his loved ones, and his close ones, and stood at their graves, mourning, crying, and remembering the beautiful days, companionship and dearness, the splendor of imagination has been mixed with painful truth in this art, in addition to the depth of emotion, the heat of feelings, and the beauty of the sincere elegiac image, which the poet draws without any artificial external influence on him, other than loyalty to loved ones that expressed inner sincerity, or to the human ties that It combines it with his elegy. Lamentation is an ancient purpose, one of the purposes of Arabic poetry, and we are not exaggerating if we say that man has known this type of poetry since he knew death. Lamentation has been associated with death, since the dawn of history, and nations in the desert and urban areas began to mourn their dead, standing over their graves, commemorating them, and lamenting and lamenting. On their men. This was common in Mesopotamian literature, as well as in ancient Egyptian literature, which provided us with some legendary stories, which were widespread among the Pharaohs in the legend of (Isis, Osiris, and his brother Set), which depicts to us the lamentation of (Azissa) in her crying for her husband (Osiris), who was killed by his brother. (Sitt) out of greed for his wife, and this elegiac image extends from generation to generation among the Egyptians.