An Analytical Study of the Use of Omar Khayyam in Contemporary Iraqi Poetry(The two poems "The One Who Comes and Doesn't Come" and "Revolution in Hell")

Abstract

Khayyam, the poet, philosopher, astronomer and Iranian mathematician, is a clamorous character in stating about the universe. He is the character that most of the Arab poets used his ideas in their poems specially around world pleasure, in different ways like summons, mystery, and using common words in his quatrains for example wine, cup,… that buckle up with intrinsic plights and emotion and attitudes and experiences, which is explained. In this article in addition to Khayyam and his influence in Arab contemporary literature , it also surveys its unaffected of their poets and its quatrains around the word and his position in this world and also two odes of famous poets in this area like Abdolvahab Bayati,Jamil Sedghi Zahavi, that these poets didn’t use this Iranian’s character in their poets as suitable and necessary rather most of them with a little difference used his character attitude in this new usage and didn’t notice to his different attitude. If seems that they noticed to external meanings of words used in his quatrains and neglected their real and metaphoric meanings and deduced meanings from these words that wasn’t Kayyam’s aim. Because if wine was being independent in his quatrains in always related to his thought or his inner leaks. As most of the critics believe that, wine in his poetry is allegory and metaphor not a real kind of wine. For considering this subject used an analytic-descriptive method