Dia Khudair, a critic of modern Iraqi poetry

Abstract

It is inescapable to say that Diaa Khudair presented the works of the poets Saadi Youssef and Hamid Saeed to an audience of Arab readers. Despite the fame of these two poets, the two books of Diaa Khudair have formed another window through which their poetry runs out.

He formed a book, Diaa Khudair, as an applied criticism, through textual analysis of the poems of the two poets, in which the author selected different poems from the production of the two Iraqi poets. This is due to the strength of friendship that binds them.

The most prominent characteristic of Dia Khudair's criticism is that it employs comparisons in its attempts to analyze the poetic selections from the texts of the poets, and what Dia Khudair accomplished in Dohat Chestnut is no different from his analytical attempts in the Baghdadi Mu'allaqa.

He shies away from the responsibility of defining the approach he will take in his attempts to analyze the poems of the two poets away from any prior methodological allegations, redundant claims, and unnecessary critical tricks, just as Diaa Khudair showed an indirect tendency to study the poets in a study, in isolation from the affiliations and other contexts surrounding the texts of the poets, and makes his attempts a kind of Dialogue with oneself, or writing for oneself, stressing that he does not talk about critical theories and approaches.