Cultural tributaries in the poetry of Kadhum Al-Hajjaj: The social tributary as a model

Ali Kadhum Tarish , Asst. Prof. Dr. Hussein Ali Jabbar Al-Qased 332-355

Abstract

    The tributary is the provider or the host, and rivers have tributaries that flow into them. Everything must have a tributary; tributaries of knowledge are reading and awareness, as well as what a person obtains with his five senses. The poet works on an imaginative activity whose tool is language, and he cannot avoid taking from philosophy, just as he cannot stay away from psychology and sociology, in addition to his inherited treasure. All of that we can summarize in tributaries. We may not be entitled to say «we can,» because they are actually tributaries. Therefore, when we study poetry, we must search the tributaries of Kadhum Al-Hajjaj, whether acquired through hearing, sight, education, or acculturation (i.e., exposure to the culture of others). A poet must be highly cultured and well-versed in the literary, social, political, and religious heritage. He must view it with a penetrating eye and broaden his cultural horizons in order to express the issues of his society. A poem is like a river, a collection of tributaries that have acquired an entity called the poem. A recipient who is enchanted by a poem may not explore its tributaries, its relationship to other cultures, its influence and influence, etc. However, when the recipient feels that he has heard or read a text containing something meaningful that troubles his memory, he is compelled to search for the origin of this meaning. The source of this meaning is the tributary.
Keywords: cultural tributaries, social tributary, cultural criticism, Kadhum Al-Hajjaj