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Sadîq Şabak, if you can call him a poet, all of them―except for Mula Tehsin, who he is a
religious one, who thinks the change, to renew, is something like a sin. Although he’s a
friend of his, Mula Tehsîn. But when he had his own group, Mula Tehsîn, as a religious
man, fought them, was against them.
EM: Just two more questions.
MQ: You’re welcome.
EM: Can you briefly state the different periods you spoke about, the different
styles of Kurdish poetry, beginning with the Neo-classical?
MQ: First Neo-classical, then free style [New Period], and then the psychological
period, which was a short period, then modern poetry.
EM: Is there anything else you think I should know about Kurdish poetry for my
linguistic analysis?
MQ: He says poetry by itself is something funny, you can say, and amusing. He
says, when we say a word, for example, it doesn’t mean that word. It’s a figurative word;
we mean something else. You say something but you mean something else. So maybe a
set of images are in just one word. So when you come to do the analysis on the language
of poetry, it is very, very different than any other types of language, like everyday
language. He says, for example, he has a poem that he wrote right after he was released
from prison. He says he wrote about dreams. Like in Kurdish tradition, he says, for
example, if you see blood in your dream, it means you will depart from something. Or if
you see that your tooth is pulled out, it means you will die or something. He says he
collected these ideas and he put them in his poetry with a new angle, in a new way. And
also a verse from the Qur’an―he says that when Joseph the prophet was one of the
prisoners, he saw a dream about some people that would die. He put these ideas in his
poems. So he says his reader should be someone who is educated, especially so that he
understands the taste of this poetry. Not all people can read it.
EM: Thank you for your time.