It was the real beginnings of him that drew attention to him through his publication of the collection "Wilted Flowers" in late 1947, which included the poem "Was it love?"
And this poem was - as stated in the episode (8/30/2020) of the program "outside the text" - the major turning point in the course of the Arabic poem, as the stage of the passive poem began, which dissolved from the law of the poetic column, and the poem created a lot of controversy among critics, Let the metatarsal hair begin to spread.
But this type of poetry made the advocates of traditional poetry at that period launch violent attacks on everyone who writes in the modern form, accusing them of distorting and alienating the heritage, influenced by foreign literature.
In this regard, Professor of Arabic Literature at the University of Baghdad, Areej Kanaan, went on to say that everything new is opposed in its stage, and it is natural for voices to appear in opposition to this new style, especially since the Arab taste is accustomed to a certain style of the poem and does not like to break with the stereotypes recognized and inherited since Hundreds of years.
Glow despite the sadness
on his part, the Iraqi poet Muhammad Nassif said that Al-Sayyab presented to the Arab cultural scene his poems, despite her deep sadness, in addition to that he led the rebellion in the context of the inherited Arab poem.
Nassif went on to say that the Arabic poem was a sacred legacy at that stage that no one would dare to transcend, but Al-Sayyab dared to change the template of the Arabic poem, considering that this matter opened the door to intruders on poetry who did not know the language and did not master grammar, morphology and weight, but presented themselves As poets.
As for the researcher and critic Fakhri Salih, he considered that Al-Sayyab's poems bring together the whole world, and it is a very difficult issue that made the poem a tourist and has no center. The poem of Al-Sayyab is loose, and the reader cannot determine its beginning and end and linking them.
Saleh added that the issue of leadership is related to who was able to establish the new poetic form in the contemporary Arab track, noting that Al-Sayyab was exploding poetry, while Nazik al-Malaika was more able to theorize for her poem.