The Emergence of Different Types of Commitment in Ahmad Matar's Poetry

The commitment literature is an approach that stands against the art for art school. This literary school emerged in the 19th century after flourishing different literary schools in Europe. Commitment in general means deliberate participation of writer’s thoughts, feelings and art in different humane, national and ethnic matters. Thus, using art and literature for illustrating people’s conditions and showing their pain and sufferings is called commitment. Ahmad Matar is considered one of the few poets who has dedicated his poetry to the service of religion, ethics, politics and people in a way that he has devoted his life to the Arab People. The most important feature of Matar's poetry is commitment in literature and the topics of his poems clearly show this important feature. The present study intends to examine the types of commitment in Ahmad Matar's poetry in a descriptive-analytical manner and to express the frequency of each. The findings show that political commitment has a higher frequency than other types of commitment, and the attack on the manifestations of oppression and injustice of the rulers in the Arab world occupies a significant part of the content of his poetry. The reason for this is that the poet grew up in a suffocating political situation.