Purposes in Poems in the Poems of "Ruhi Al-Aqtabi"

Abstract

The objective purposes in the poem “Ruhi al-Aqtibi” are considered among the important topics in the classical/ ancient Kurdish literature, as the poetic and written experience is an extension or reaction for certain personal, social, and linguistic reasons…. etc. Therefore, we decided to examine into the experience of the poet (Sheikh Abdul al-Rahman Aqtabi 1854 AD - 1910 AD) from the standpoint of descriptive and analytical research method is able to contain the objectives of the research. We concluded that, after researching and the analyzing, his poems contained five main themes or purposes, including: the flirtation that took the lion's share or (the largest part of his poetry) Where the Spiritual collection consists of (29) poems. So, we can identify the percentage of his poems according to the following topics: Satire (1), one poem (3.45%), Praise (2) (6.9%), Epithet (2) (6.9%), loving the Ahl Al-Bayit (2) (6.9%), love genre (22) (75.9%), spiritual poetry consists of many literary genres, the important and attractive thing in his poetry is satire, despite the Sunni poets’ distance from the Muawiyah Satire, but we notice in the poems of Al-Ruhi, the satire with which he (Yazid Bin Muawiyah) was satirized. Even though he's Sunni – Asha’ary.