Imran Abdullah

The art of biographies is usually written prose, but the poetry template gives him additional fun and beauty, as some poets recorded their biographies in poems, and they were able to adapt the poetry template to accommodate features of their biographies.

Biographical poems appear to be a mixture of creative arts and a hybrid type of poetry and narrative. Although rare and unpopular, the few models she has mastered have opened new creative windows by merging two genres.

The Iraqi poet, who recorded many of his life's events in his poems, Abdul Wahab al-Bayati painted a picture of his boyhood in Iraq in a poem entitled "Memoirs of an unknown man", saying:

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You know the meaning of being?

Beggar, naked, throughout our big world

And it tasted the taste of orphanhood optimal and loss?

I know what it means to be?

A thief haunted by darkness

And fear through the tombs of the sad countryside

Al-Bayati lived a life of movement and travel that affected his poetry "exile", and in the poetry of Badr Shaker Al-Sayyab many references to stories of his life, including his experiences in love and suffering with illness and alienation, and after returning to Basra suffering from the disease and wrote a poem "From the nights of Suhad" Which says in its conclusion:

I returned to my hey for ambulance transfers

Haman my funeral stretched where I see (Guillana)

Staring waiting in the sky and cloud cloud

And what is not two weeks full of sorrows

I am surprised by the harbinger of years of deprivation and want

Pi monitors here in the Iron Helmets Forest

Drowning in the swirl of the wave, when the cloud catches

The groaning wind in the palm fronds laments

His sad poems between the leaves of oleander or weeping willow

The `` poem of the poem '' is a proof of the possibility of combining the two genres of literature.It combines the narrative of the autobiography with poetry and opens a wide field for poetry to contain the characteristics of the narrative text which in turn becomes intertwined with the poem, in evidence of the possibility of opening creative texts to each other.

While the “I am the author” and the narrator converge with “I am the poet,” the text of the poetic Srdati poem appears to be different from that of the prose.It is based on intense and selective language, and it cannot keep up with the detailed direction of the prose narrative despite their involvement in the literary retrospective narrative technique.

Poetry Biography
Features of a poetic autobiography can be found in pre-Islamic poetry, such as in the juvenile Tarfah ibn al-Abid commentary, and Antara's commentary, which included aspects of his life and story, as poetic expression was popular at the time.

In modern times, poets who formulated their biographies or parts of them with poems such as the Palestinian Ahmed Dahbour, the Iraqi Yusuf Al-Sayegh, the contemporary Yemeni Hassan Abdullah Al-Sharafi, and even Nizar Qabbani, who in his famous poem "Balqees" recounted the story of his love and the life of the woman he was important to.

Nazim Hekmat without poetry stages of his life from childhood to middle age (Al Jazeera)

The famous Turkish poet and writer Nazim Hikmat wrote his autobiography in a poem organized in Turkish, and recorded the stages of his life from childhood to middle age, including the experience of imprisonment and movement between countries, and says in "Biography."

I was born in 1902

I never returned to my hometown

I don't like going back

At three I was working as a grandson of a pashas in Aleppo

Nineteen students at the Communist University in Moscow

At 49, I returned to Moscow as a guest of the Czech Party

I have been a poet since I was fourteen

Hikmat completes his poem by narrating a brief biography, including his political ups and downs, 12 years in prison, exile, escape, asylum and movement between countries. He wrote in East Berlin in the early 1960s:

At thirty they wanted to hang me

At the forty-eighth to give me the Peace Prize

That's what they did

At 36, four square meters of reinforced concrete were laid for half a year

At 59, I flew from Prague to Havana in 18 hours

I never saw Lenin and stood watching his coffin in the 24th

In the 61st grave I visit is his books

They tried to move me away from my party

They did not succeed

Neither I crushed under falling idols

In the 51st she sailed with a young friend through the teeth of death

At 52 I spent four months lying on my back with a broken heart

Waiting for death

I was jealous of the women I loved

I never envied Charlie Chaplin

Deceived womans

I never betrayed my friends

I drank but not every day

I earn my bread money honestly and happiness

Thus, the poet recorded his biography through his favorite medium, ie, the poetry court, rather than the usual prose book.