Examining The Common Themes In The Poems Of Ahmed Shamlou And Mohammedali Yaseen Taha

Abstract

The vision and attitude of each poet to the existing elements and dealing with their details show the thoughts that have involved the poet's mind. Sometimes it happens that poets follow each other and mention common themes, and even though these poets are from two different cultures with two different languages, their common view of the same topics will show the closeness of their thinking. Mohammedali Yaseen Taha is one of the Kurdish language poets who expressed the themes that are prominently present in Shamlou's poems. The discussed poets first express their thoughts about death and each of them describe death according to their own point of view, then they have created remarkable poems about freedom and its value of humans, which invites the audience to a deeper thinking. Also, they express sadness and unhappiness that the mankind is surrounded with, according to the close thoughts of the two poets, innumerable things about love and naturalism can be seen in their poems, which each of them describe their love and interest in nature in a special beauty with pure imagery. It should be noted that these cases show the poet's common attitude towards issues that direct their minds to one side. This research has been done with the method of analyzing and describing verses from Divan of poets, in which, while extracting common themes from Divan of mentioned poets, they have been interpreted and analyzed.