Autobiography is poetry A cultural study of systemic shifts in the employments of modern poetry

Abstract

This research is specifically interested in the biography of the poet as a human, amid struggles of life and its transformations and its existential repercussions on the human depth. It is represented by self-defeat, disperse and the existential anxiety, likewise frustration and alienation in the life experience that has been ravaged by wars, famines and practices of cultural and human oppression. It is the ego that puts its experience in the line with cultural transformations to be a part of the history of a nation, or the life of a society. It is not the closed ego, that is, without knowledge, manifesting itself as an instrument of consolidating to rhetoric statements of authority, based on rhythmic tendencies that protect its historical existence. The autobiography is a self-existent art, and its evocation to make a poetic poem has specific patterns according to the poet’s mean purpose. So, the evocation comes up with an emotional and sentimental treatment for some time, while it comes as a pride for another time, which results in a kind of self-poetry and amplification of the ego and it comes in a form of exclusion and superiority. Whatever  many variations of the ego manifestations or the poet’s biography, they produced only patterns representing defects of rhetoric, and the dominations  of the authoritarian institutions that put cultural rhetoric in line with its ideology to protect its trend and justify its existence. However, the new experience in modern Iraqi poetry was unique of a new approach that would come out of traditional patterns in order to create free forms away of the institution’s domination with humanitarian sights, which represents the rebellion of broken self and its position rejecting the ugliness of war and destruction.