The Motif of Anxiety and its Different Images in the Poetry of Safi Hirani

Abstract

The paper is titled "The Motif of Anxiety and its Different Images in the Poetry of Safi Hirani." It's obvious that one of the most prominent motifs used by the poets is anxiety. Anxiety is always present not only with the poets, but also in human beings in general. As Marten Heidegger believes, anxiety and concern are foundational aspects of dasein (human existence) and they are not separated from this existence, but for poet’s anxiety is persistent, existential and constantly reflected in their unconscious. Eventually, the only way to express and present this psychological and existential concern for the poets is to do it through poetry.

Safi Hirani, as skilled and well-versed poet in classical literature, just like other poets of his era, anxiety has become the motif of part of his poetry, presenting it in variable poetic images. The method used is descriptive-analytic, and the paper consists of an introduction and two sections. In the first section, which is the theoretical one, the terms and concepts of motif, anxiety and imagery are depicted.

 In the second section; a practical one, the images and poetic significations of anxiety in Safi Hirani’s poetry, his Kurdish poems specifically, are presented. It is divided into these subsections: the signification of multitude of the image of anxiety, the signification of dreadfulness and disturbance of anxiety, the personification of anxiety, the reification of anxiety, turning anxiety into time, turning anxiety into place and twin’s image of Safi and anxiety. In the end, the conclusion of the paper and the works cited are added, followed by the abstract of the paper in both Kurdish and Arabic.