The Legendary Poetic Employment and its Connotations in the Poetry of Sayyab Sarbros Poem in Babylon as a Model

Abstract

Bader Shaker Al-Sayyab, a poet known for his artistic employment of legends.  So I decided to search for the poetry of this employment through a modern critical approach, which is the deliberative approach, which is based on understanding the intention of the author through the codes of the text, according to the author’s opinion The poetic legendary employment in the Sarbros poem in Babylon lies in making the entire poem an extended metaphor and a departure from the ordinary  speech, the legend here was not a tool for forming the poem, but rather the structure through which the poem was formed.  Sarbros is the guardian of the kingdom of death in the myths of the Greek,  and (the wounded Iraq)  Babylon Sarbros may mean to a poet a person, or a system, in his intentions; however, his interpretation opens to the continent to include various different possibilities, giving the poem a vital flow that connects it with ages and generations that are different from its age and generation, as long as death is one, and wounded Iraq is one, so Sarbros in  Every age wears a robe characterized by the ugliness of killing and tearing the heart of Iraq, the poet relied on the ideas of retrieval and anticipation in drawing his expressive portrait of Iraq and the suffering of his people throughout the times, and the central theme of the poem was (the struggle between the unjust power and the people).