Homs-Sana
The great poet, Adel Nassif, carried the homeland in his heart and poetry, and his literary and poetic works were a translation of this sincere love that the Homs intellectuals enjoyed in a critical symposium hosted today by the Writers Union entitled (Critic and Poet).
Professor at Al-Baath University and a member of the Central Council of the Arab Writers Union, Dr. Jawdat Ibrahim, dealt with a critical study of Nassif’s poetic works, after he gave a brief definition of the poet and his poetry, describing him as a great poet and a patriot par excellence because he carried in his expatriate the concerns of the homeland, so he chronicled them in his collections, including his last collection (The Fragrance of Jasmine). And Syria, with its civilization, nature and people, radiated light in each of his poems.
Ibrahim saw that Nassif's poetry of a high level of high artistic style, traditional in style, studded with poetic and rhetorical images in a sound language with multiple and varied vocabulary and poetic music that brings us back to poetic commentaries with its strength and grace.
Nassif then read a number of his patriotic and humanitarian poems overflowing with love for the homeland, bearing the titles “Wafaa” and “My embrace is safety for you” in which he calls on the sons of the homeland to return to his embrace, and the poem “Peace from Saba Barada” in which he simulates the poem of Ahmed Shawqi and the poem “I and Hind” and “Innocence of Children” ).
It is noteworthy that the poet Nassif, who is from the village of al-Kima in Wadi al-Nadari, occupied a number of tasks during his studies and work before his expatriation, including first directing the Arabic language at the Ministry of Education and editor-in-chief of the magazine (The Arab Teacher).
The symposium was attended by an audience of intellectuals, writers and members of the Union.
Hanan Sweid
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