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style. 27 Regarding the issue of themes in present day poetry, Quçan says that because life
is less predictable now, the subject matter for poetry has changed. Life in the village was
simpler, but with urban life comes a life that is less planned and more reactionary. Quçan
says, “Our feelings now are confused. We don’t have fixed style…[or] pure subject to
write about…If you read my poems, you can see a mixture of subjects” (Quçan 2010).
3.2 Sindî on present day poetry
Sindî expressed a couple of concerns regarding the state of Kurdish poets of this
generation—the younger poets. First, he calls them “beginners,” saying that they don’t
have any “literature roots.” They started reading and writing in the Kurdish language at a
time when Kurdish literature was forbidden. Instead of spending time in the classics,
most people writing poetry “just imitate the Palestinian poets, French poets, Italian poets,
American poets. They read some translated work and try to copy the same experience and
the same literature—but they put it in Kurdish language.” Sindî goes on to say:
They think that modern poetry is when you say something illogical, when
you say some strange things, when you say some nasty things, when you
try to be strangers in your society. They think this is modern literature.
They try to pretend that they are the generation of renewing the literature.
And some of them say, “No, we are not renewing the literature; we are
establishing the literature, and everything that has been said before us, it
is not literature.” (Sindî 2010)
He admits that this is not the case with all poets, and that there are some very respectable
poets in both the Northern and Central Kurdish areas.
3.3 Quçan on poetry and life in the village
say:
On poetry and how life was in the village years ago, Quçan had the following to
27 To my knowledge, there are no living poets who write in the older, Classical style of Cezîrî and Xanî.
These poets used Farsi, Arabic and Turkish words in their lines of poetry.