Character Aspects in the poem Dilana and Diram by the Syrian poet Salim Barakat

Salim Barakat is one of the most prominent Syrian poets and one of the most important Kurdish novelists and poets who chose Arabic as the language of their poetic and narrative production. He may be the most important novelist and poet who focused all of his works on expressing the concerns and issues of the Kurds, with his great interest in Kurdish characters, families, and climates in his poetic and fictional works. Barakat has his style of writing, and this style stems from the complex cultural, political, and social mosaic of the Syrian Jazira region, especially the Kurdish city of Qamishli, the poet’s birthplace, and his Kurdish-Iranian background, and Kurdish is an important language among the “Iranian languages.” This research deals with the poem “Dilana and Diram” from Al-Karaki’s collection, by focusing on the characters of this poem, especially the two original characters in the text, Dilana and Diram. It also deals with the features of the character the dimensions of its depiction, and its relationship to the Iranian-Kurdish culture and the Kurdish environment in the region where the poet was born. He spent his childhood and youth, leaving for Damascus, Beirut, Cyprus, and Stockholm, and the reflection of the Iranian-Kurdish culture and the culture of the Kurdish environment that the poet lived in was evident in his narrative poetic text, as we saw that the characters, methods of their drawing, and the atmosphere of the text has features of love stories, epics, and tragedies, but these features merge, and we see a hidden, complex progression in these three features.