The poetic output and manifestation of sorrow and roving in “Abdullah Pashew’s” and “Ma’aruf Rosafi’s’’ poetry

Ma’aruf Rosafi, a well-known Arab poet and Abdullah Pashew, a well-known Kurd poet in Iraq, are two contemporary poets who suffered from alienation. The study possesses great significance, since the issue of alienation has never previously been investigated through a stand-alone comparative study. Thus, the researcher has tried to adopt a descriptive-analytic approach to alienation in Rosafi’s and Pashew’s poetry. The two poets suffered from a sense of social, political and mental alienation caused by the hegemony of colonialism, tyranny, the marginalization of the educated, the monopoly of management by the ignoble, Iraq’s backward social situation, lack of freedom, their denied wishes and dreams, moral decay, the inconsistency between their life and the society’s criteria, political division, refusal of their request and invitation by their nation, a nostalgic feeling originating from regretting for the values and a magnificent history and their distance from their country in that time. In contrast to Rosafi’s alienation and sorrow which is confined to regional issues, the one experienced by “Pashew” is tran-regional and transnational. The roving experienced by Rosafi is an imprisoned feeling which is expressed by sorrowful poems. However, Pashew’s roving is expressed through poems which originate from the outburst of a deeply-rooted anger and sorrow. The “homeland” is one of the most frequent manifestations of alienation which affects all the aspects of roving in the poems of the two poets. This frequency is due to the fact that in addition to the period being far from their homeland, they experienced an increased feeling of sorrow and roving even when they were living in their own country.