Modernism in the poetry of Neo-classical Egyptian Poets

The Egyptian Neoclassic poets were the first poets who could save poetry from the calamities befallen them during the age of decadence and put it back on the right course once more. In this article attempt is made to analyze the poetry of three well known Neoclassic poets, namely, Baroudi, Shawqi, and Hafez Ibrahim. Traces of modernism is more evident in their works than their contemporaries.
While using the classical Arabic system of meter and rhyme, and also forms, the poets wrote to express new ideas and feelings unknown to the classicists.