Narration in Anecdotal Poems of Anwar Qadir

Abstract

The start of literature genre was alongside the modernization of human society. Meaning that, any method or concept will not remain the same forever at any stage of life, so even if they stays constant, it will not remain without being affected by changes. As a result, this will lead to the initiation of new genres, so the anecdotal poems is one of the new forms of poems which resulted from the interaction of both story and poetry. One of the well known elements of this new genre is known as (Narrative) which is the basic constructing element of anecdotal poems. A story or incident would be told in a form of poems with the use of narration which this also gives joy to the event and giving a message to the teller that remains in the mind of reader and receiver on the other hand. This form of poems has a long history in the Kurdish literature.
There are tens of love and heroic anecdotes written in the form of poems in the Kurdish literature, and it also left important footages and impact on the contemporary literature of the Kurds. Anwar Qadir is one of the poets of the seventies, and we can find multiple anecdotal poems of him that he wrote after the establishment of Rwanga Group. Among his anecdotal poetry, we can also find narrative stories which shows us the use of narration had a great role in his poems with the techniques of dialogue, monologue, and flashback .