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What Is The Poet ?

What Is The Poet ?
Samaan Khwam/ Syrian Artist
  • Monday 7 October 2019

Maybe, we have the right to ask about the quiddity of poet/ poetess again and not at last. Poetry as a cultural product will not stop changing attributed to the cognitive variables for all times and places, that is what leads to change the quiddity of the poet attributed to the community values in its emerging forms, in the sense that the poet cannot be fully informed in terms of total knowledge, but perhaps becomes closer to a specialization that puts him around the corner of his cognitive tendency like sociology or politics or linguistics or literature or maybe economics too, or another in which suits his desires, and this leads to several issues which make the poet himself in one way or another. Where we can launch names, as in the past, such as the poet of trial or the poet of the issue, the poet of working class, the poet of grammar and morphology, like ( Ibn Malik) for example…etc, to make poetry present, also, there is a poet of secularism or liberalism! But is it true that there is a poet of hatred, lowness, racism or tyranny? Or Is it permissible for hatred, lowness and racism to be the characteristics of the poet himself?
Yes, that is possible. There are poets who are despicable, arrogant and racist, but their poetry is great, and there are poets like them wrote their hatred, lowness and racism with their full elegance. They are dedicated and "great" poets!
This leads us to a question about the poet's ability to practice current values as an essential part of the culture whether they are cognitive or ignorant in according to the personal, psychological and educational effect... then, what is the poet?
Should this question be repeated and repeated with every social era and every culture era, or there is no need to present it as long as there are those who can formulate and publish and read his personal cultural production as it is, to turn the poetic system into workmanship with a contemporary cover.