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Al-Baradouni is a great inspirational revolutionary poet with his disappointment, his art and his genius glow. Although Al Baradouni (1929 - 1999) was born to a miserable family, in a miserable age, and grew up as a blind boy, and received education with great hardship, but he had the early poetic talent, to be an influential figure to attract the attention of decision centers, and it was natural to contact these centers like other great poets within a good friendly relationship. He is one of the few poets who remained conservative in the form of the old poem, and at the same time renewed in its themes, and in its architecture intended to build the poem, where they established new linguistic relations at the level of significance, expressive form and poetic wording, all with strict preservation of the line system and traditional rhythm. Al Baradouni, who was following all the new in the volatile Arab poetry movement, and read the translated international literature, benefited from his readings in his poetry, renewed in language and in the picture, in the metaphor, and used narrative techniques in his poems, which were drafted poetic stories, as well as dialogue and drama, especially in his diwaniya City of Tomorrow and Smoky Faces in the Mirrors of the Night. This article will shed the light on Al Baradouni’s life, his personality, his people and his ages. The paper will examine to which extent the poet is physically disable but mentally intellectual than all his age artists. He was like the candle among all the literati of the first half of the 20th century in Arabic literature and revolutionary discipline.
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