Love for Land (Country) and Patriotism in Some Selected Poems in English and Kurdish in the First Half of Twentieth Century | ||
| Journal Of Al-Frahids Arts | ||
| Article 1, Volume 2, Issue 27, October 2017, Pages 62-73 | ||
| Author | ||
| Salar Mahmoud Muhammed Salih | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Abstract Literature is always regarded as the mirror that reflects the age and the place of any piece of writing, and for the formalists; literature is self-reflexing. The love of one’s country and native land is inherently superior to all other feelings specifically during the war and fighting for independence. On one hand, England, due to its central role in universal affairs and its participating in the two Great World Wars, possesses a huge fame for patriotic emotions and nationalist reactions. On the other hand, Kurdish people (one of the nations that inhabits Middle East and it’s descended from Indo-Iranian families) has tried their excessive efforts to achieve an independent country for their own. So, the study aims at comparing the various poetic images that are used in both sides to express the same nationalistic feeling and reactions towards their homelands in the first half of 20th century which includes the two World Wars that encouraged the enthusiastic morals to write patriotic themes including freedom, love for country. The study discusses the styles of selected patriotic poems in both to uncover the ways that they show nationalistic concepts through comparing selected lines from them to find similar and different poetic images in depicting those themes via using various words, expressions, allusions, proverbs, landscapes, geographical scenes, heroes, and other related elements and pictures. The study consists of five parts, and adopts the American models of comparative methods and the MLA (Modern Language Association) as the style for documentation and formatting the footnotes. Finally, the study ends up with a succinct conclusion that displays distinct means to draw patriotism, and the list of works cited. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Love for Land; in the First Half of Twentieth Century | ||
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