The Political Satire in the Poems of Ibn-Bassam Baghdadi

Political poem is a type in which the poet expresses his political inclination and expresses his ideas and wishes. And political satire is an interpretation of his position against enemies, opposition party or group. By this way, satire is found to be a heritage of Arabic literature. This article discusses the political satire of Ibn Bassam Baghdadi, a third century Hijri poet through a descriptive and analytic method with the aim of finding the relation between Bani-Abbas government and poet's satire. And this is done through studying the samples of the poet's political satires and its technical analysis as well as the inner and outer music in order to understand the amount of music's impression in conceptualizing syllable and enriching poet's literary thought. The special political-social situation of Iraq where the poet lived in the third century provided him an opportunity to choose the satire as a method and style for his literary work. At the same time, his literary character was in line with satire and stabilizes his satire by derision. The poet doesn’t use his satire to amuse or take revenge or make laugh the audience but also for advertising his anger against the Bani-Abbas government and humiliating them among the people. Therefore his satires are people-oriented and they are quoted and spread among them.