Poetry Between Heritage and Identity According to Mahmoud Darwish and Abdullah Bashio

Abstract

Abstract
Cultural colonialism, through its control over the minds of young people, has created empty generations that know nothing about their cultural and civilizational heritage, and thus generations without identity, who do not master their mother tongue while boasting of their ability to communicate in various foreign languages. Therefore, it was important to pay attention to this issue and protect national identity as much as possible. There is no doubt that this task falls primarily on the shoulders of the intellectuals of each nation, and since poets were the best representatives of their people throughout the ages, it was necessary for them to bear this task, and indeed they had to. A prominent role throughout history in the issue of protecting the national heritage and its identity from fading and extinction. In the world of poetry in particular and literature in general, we have many examples, and in this study we will stop at the poetry of two important poets in modern literature who made great use of heritage and defended identity in their poetry: Mahmoud Darwish, the Palestinian poet, and Abdullah Bashio, the Kurdish poet. The nature of this study required that it have a theoretical introduction. About modern poetry and the way it draws inspiration from heritage and identity, and two sections in which we discussed the use of heritage and identity in the poets’ poetry. As for the method followed in this study, it was the analytical method that takes advantage of all modern theories and methods applied to the literary text.