The nihilistic appearance of the city in contemporary Iraqi poetry

Abstract

This study dealt with an important topic of contemporary Iraqi poetry, which was represented by the city's nihilistic appearance in Iraqi poetry, but it was not a contemporary topic entirely, but rather it has historical roots in ancient poetry, and it was referred to by literary sources, but the wars that followed the city And calamities that led to different visions of poets in contemporary poetry. Most of the poetry that included this topic was accompanied by a kind of despair, gloom, psychological imbalance, a dark outlook on life, and the reality in which there was no freedom and independence. in which their poems were filled, in addition to the foreign influence that was embodied in their poetic texts.