Manifestation of Political Thoughts and Nostalgia in Siavash Kasrai and Badr Shakir Al-Sayyab’s Poetries

Critical and objective literature reflects the orientations and concerns of protesters against the regimes or governments. These ideas that appear in the works of poets consciously or unconsciously provide a common ground in the literature of different nations. Poetries by Siavash Kasrai and Badr Shakir al-Sayyab (Iraqi poet) can be examined in this regard due to facing similar political failures. The findings of the present study indicate that despair, nostalgia and political frustration are the main themes of both poets’ poetries. Both have resorted to regret and loneliness, expressing love for the homeland, using myths, complaining about the times and the people of the time, and stating disgust with traitors to express their political nostalgia. Both are looking for a lost paradise to get rid of the existing political atmosphere. Feelings of failure, deception, confusion and even remorse are more pronounced in Kasrai's poems. Hope and despair go hand in hand in Kasrai's poems, but in Sayyab's poetries they are related to two stages of his life. loneliness and morbidity can be seen in both poets’ poetries.