The liberation of the contemporary man from the crisis in the poetry of Khalil Hawi

Khalil Hawi is one of the contemporary Lebanese poets who have many reflections on contemporary man and his problems. His poems contain an echo of modern man and his struggles that speak of the pain, suffering and injustice they endure. He considers mankind in our time, especially the contemporary Arab man, to be a captive creature who has fallen into the current crisis, surrounded by oppression. He also addressed in his poems the grievances and crises that made the modern Arab man, especially the contemporary generation, stagnant, to the extent that his poems depict a deep crisis and tragedy, and this is the same crisis and grief that has become the basis of contemporary human existence. The contemporary poet is not ignorant of the contemporary man’s awareness of his oppression and his problems, and he seeks to explain the contemporary man with the human principle. Khalil Hawi has ideas for saving people in his poetry and uses and expresses his existential experiences. Hawi believed that, in order to save himself, modern man made freedom the title of his life and with slogans such as; Hope, waiting for a miracle, with certainty, struggle, revolution, uprising and idealism, he tries to work with these ideas, efforts and struggles in order to save humanity, especially the Arab man, and in all these circumstances he hopes to achieve the freedom he desires.