The homeland features in the poems of Boland Al Haidari

Patriotism and drawing its various aspects is considered the most important inherent concerns of any undertaking poet, which in the recent century, has attracted the most attention of poets, due to many political and social transformations in the third world countries. Following the events of World War II, a generation of Iraqi poets was born which pursued their country's problems and atrocities responsibly. Among them, Boland Al Haidary can be considered as one of the most undertaking contemporary poets in Iraq. Hence, in this study the authors intend to study his poems in three topics, namely "oppression and despotism at homeland", homeland backwardness" and "Child, future reflection and resistance at homeland", based on descriptive-analytical method. Results of this query suggest that Boland has criticized the power over the society and has revealed oppression and colonization of Iraq which led to society backwardness and showed the effects of these two reasons at the next generation of his homeland. A generation of children which are innocent nowadays and suffer the war and in the Boland's poem, they are considered as matchless heroes at the path of freedom of homeland.