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In Kurdistan, in winter, the nights are very long. So when winter would
come, everything would stop. You could not work outside. You would eat
and drink and at night everybody would sit down. There were poems, of
course, poetry, and there were stories, and there were poems for crying,
for making fun, for nationalism, for everything. And, of course, their
fathers would recite poems to children, or the grandfather or
grandmother…But they would not say, for example, this is Nalbend’s
poem or Cezirî’s poem. They just recited the poem. (Quçan 2010)
3.4 On themes in Northern Kurdish poetry
During my interviews and other discussions with Reşîd Findî and Badirxan Sindî,
I was given a number of Northern Kurdish terms for poetic themes. These themes are
summarized in Table 2. The table also identifies the themes used by three of the poets
represented in the corpus. 28
28 Quçan was not included as we did not discuss themes much during the interview. He, personally, does
not believe that his poems reflect any one subject.