Exile and Immigration Poetry of Mahmoud Sami al-Baroudi

Resistance against western hegemony, neo-colonialism and exploitation is one of the issues contemporary Arab poets have dealt with. This especially since Arab nations encountered with this evil phenomenon affecting them politically, socially and culturally. Consequently, some poets were exiled or imprisoned for resisting colonization and underwent much hardship. Mahmud Sami al-Barudi is one such poet who was exiled to Sarandib for 17 years which are conspicuously reflected in his poetry, diction and style. Barudi´s poetry is idiosyncratically heroic and epical. Multiplicity and diversity of his poetry are so remarkable that one can consider his melancholically nostalgic patriotic poems dividing them into two independent exile and political genres. In the nostalgic poems of al-Barudi, he is committed to pure and sincere emotions, which like a common line, links his poems together. Lengthy, organic unity, thematic variety, sincerity, repetition and fluency are some of characteristics of Barudi's poetry. The current study tries to examine these poems through content analysis.