Poèmes (texte en anglais)

"The poems of Sami Mahdi acquired à broader scope and the lines become distinguished by à particular rhythm which is part of the total poem in which the historical symbol is only one of its elements. Sami Mahdi has indeed brought to his poetry various cultural elements. Some of which reflec his intellectual development and broad knowledge of foreign poetry. Modern trends in world poetry are in fact the major sources of the poet. Thus he goes beyond the familiar sources of"" modern Iraqi poetry as suggested by the pioneer poets who, like Al-Sayyab, were influenced by Eliot, Sitwell and Lorca besides the old Iraqi, Greek and Christian mythologies."