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أسرار العشق
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Nizar Qabbani
243 books27 followersNizar Tawfiq Qabbani was a Syrian diplomat, poet and publisher. His poetic style combines simplicity and elegance in exploring themes of love, eroticism, feminism, religion, and Arab nationalism. Qabbani is one of the most revered contemporary poets in the Arab world, and is considered to be Syria's National Poet.
When Qabbani was 15, his sister, who was 25 at the time, committed suicide because she refused to marry a man she did not love. During her funeral he decided to fight the social conditions he saw as causing her death. When asked whether he was a revolutionary, the poet answered: “Love in the Arab world is like a prisoner, and I want to set (it) free. I want to free the Arab soul, sense and body with my poetry. The relationships between men and women in our society are not healthy.” He is known as one of the most feminist and progressive intellectuals of his time.
While a student in college he wrote his first collection of poems entitled The Brunette Told Me. It was a collection of romantic verses that made several startling references to a woman's body, sending shock waves throughout the conservative society in Damascus. To make it more acceptable, Qabbani showed it to Munir al-Ajlani, the minister of education who was also a friend of his father and a leading nationalist leader in Syria. Ajlani liked the poems and endorsed them by writing the preface for Nizar's first book.
The city of Damascus remained a powerful muse in his poetry, most notably in the Jasmine Scent of Damascus. The 1967 Six-Day War also influenced his poetry and his lament for the Arab cause. The defeat marked a qualitative shift in Qabbani's work – from erotic love poems to poems with overt political themes of rejectionism and resistance. For instance, his poem Marginal Notes on the Book of Defeat, a stinging self-criticism of Arab inferiority, drew anger from both the right and left sides of the Arab political dialogue.
When Qabbani was 15, his sister, who was 25 at the time, committed suicide because she refused to marry a man she did not love. During her funeral he decided to fight the social conditions he saw as causing her death. When asked whether he was a revolutionary, the poet answered: “Love in the Arab world is like a prisoner, and I want to set (it) free. I want to free the Arab soul, sense and body with my poetry. The relationships between men and women in our society are not healthy.” He is known as one of the most feminist and progressive intellectuals of his time.
While a student in college he wrote his first collection of poems entitled The Brunette Told Me. It was a collection of romantic verses that made several startling references to a woman's body, sending shock waves throughout the conservative society in Damascus. To make it more acceptable, Qabbani showed it to Munir al-Ajlani, the minister of education who was also a friend of his father and a leading nationalist leader in Syria. Ajlani liked the poems and endorsed them by writing the preface for Nizar's first book.
The city of Damascus remained a powerful muse in his poetry, most notably in the Jasmine Scent of Damascus. The 1967 Six-Day War also influenced his poetry and his lament for the Arab cause. The defeat marked a qualitative shift in Qabbani's work – from erotic love poems to poems with overt political themes of rejectionism and resistance. For instance, his poem Marginal Notes on the Book of Defeat, a stinging self-criticism of Arab inferiority, drew anger from both the right and left sides of the Arab political dialogue.
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July 14, 2013
أتحبني. بعد الذي كانا ؟
إني أحبك رغم ما كانا
ماضيك. لا أنوي إثارته
حبي بأنك ها هنا الآنا
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إني أحبك رغم ما كانا
ماضيك. لا أنوي إثارته
حبي بأنك ها هنا الآنا
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November 2, 2022
أسرار العشق، نزار قباني
يعتبر نزار شاعر سوري معاصر، اصدر أول دواوينه عام ١٩٤٤، كان شاعرًا يستعمل الجنسانية والنساء كالهام في قصائده وسمي بـ شاعر الحب والمرأة، أحدثت حرب ١٩٦٧ (النكسة وهي حرب نشأت بين اسرائيل وكل من العراق ومصر وسوريا والأردن) تغيرًا في قصائده، وقد اثارت بعض قصائده غضب بعض المحافظين لدرجة منع تبادل اشعاره.
كانت أحد القصائد المذكوره بالديوان (خبز وحشيش وقمر) سبب جدال كبير، واعترض رجال الدين عليه وطالبوا بقتله بسببها. أستمتعت بقصيدة «الرسم بالكلمات» لكن جنسانية نزّار مع النساء أضجرتني، كانت مكررة وتبدو لي مبتذلة إلى حد الإنتهاء، مع ذلك يجب أن أنوه على أن نزّار ليس شاعرًا مغرم بالنساء وحسب، كما هو معلوم، بل شاعرًا سياسيًا أيضًا، وجرأته، الأولى من نوعها تستحق الاحترام.
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يعتبر نزار شاعر سوري معاصر، اصدر أول دواوينه عام ١٩٤٤، كان شاعرًا يستعمل الجنسانية والنساء كالهام في قصائده وسمي بـ شاعر الحب والمرأة، أحدثت حرب ١٩٦٧ (النكسة وهي حرب نشأت بين اسرائيل وكل من العراق ومصر وسوريا والأردن) تغيرًا في قصائده، وقد اثارت بعض قصائده غضب بعض المحافظين لدرجة منع تبادل اشعاره.
كانت أحد القصائد المذكوره بالديوان (خبز وحشيش وقمر) سبب جدال كبير، واعترض رجال الدين عليه وطالبوا بقتله بسببها. أستمتعت بقصيدة «الرسم بالكلمات» لكن جنسانية نزّار مع النساء أضجرتني، كانت مكررة وتبدو لي مبتذلة إلى حد الإنتهاء، مع ذلك يجب أن أنوه على أن نزّار ليس شاعرًا مغرم بالنساء وحسب، كما هو معلوم، بل شاعرًا سياسيًا أيضًا، وجرأته، الأولى من نوعها تستحق الاحترام.
التقييم: ١.٥/٥
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