الشاعرة نازك الملائكة وحنينها إلى الإنسانية في قصيدتها الكوليرا

Abstract

Nazik al-Malaika (1923-2007) is a renowned Iraqi poet, literary figure,
author and a pioneer of Arabian women revolution. The main theme of
her writings humanity, nature, deprivation of women, the emergence of
women etc. She is one of the most remarkable modern poetesses of
Arabic literature after renaissance. She is one of them who wrote poetry
on free-verse. A group if poets and literary critics consider her as the
master of free-verse. She plays a vital role in developing the standard of
Arabian poetry and in revolutionizing the social position of women. She
was always in favour of the equalization and empowerment of women.
She advocates for the linguistic equality and the equal rights achieving
social skills of women. Nazik al-Malaika dedicates her skills on writing
poetry about her own land as well as her own race. Above all, her poetry
exposes the sense of humanity. She gets frequently disturbed in writing
poetry and in publishing them. Due to the hard and harsh opposition of
the society, she gets frustrated but never loses heart. She gets never
herself aloof from her ideology, individuality and ownness for a single
moment. She is an untraditional embodiment of humanity in Arabic
literature. She feels an acute psychological pain for the break-out of
“Cholera” in Egypt. She writes a poem entitled “Cholera” that brings her
reputation world-wide. Though cholera has disappeared from the world,
the creation of Nazik still remains as an unparallel asset in world
literature. It will be remaining till the end of the last day of this globe as
her poetry exposes the slogan of humanity.