A Seletion of Ali Abdullah Khalifah's Life and Literature

Ali Abdullah khalifah is one of the most famous poets ofBahraini poets who is from the Romantic Party. He is skillful in both eloquent and folkloric poems known as Mawwals, and in this field three of his divans have come in; and the poet, himself, considers composingeloquent and folkloric poems simultaneouslyas a gift thatfew peoplehave. In his eloquent poems, Ali Abdullah Khalifah has been highly affected by his surrounding and has composed his poems according to the place and time so that his first divan called «AninAssawari» is a visible scene and an obvious evidence of pearl hunters’ lives and their hardshipsof working that when reading, the reader envisions himself in the scene of their lives as if he has gone to the theatre and not having reada book; and his other divan, «Ezaat lezakerat elwatan», includes Bahraini political revolutions and draws popularuprisings. Ali Abdullah''s poems arecombined from the symbol and reality and this combination is not free from myth. The simple symbols like  «shams (the sun, fajr(dawn), zalam (darkness), and boom (owl) have differentinterpretations and this symbolic variety has come from a valuable experiencefrom where he shows the national and human subjects in order to find solutions