As a sensitive and astute poet,Abd al-Rahman Shokry was very impressed by the events that took place around him. Researchers who have examined Shokry’s poems believe that his poetry has had several traces of pessimism, an attidude which made them believe that he is but a pessimistic poet. However, ...
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As a sensitive and astute poet,Abd al-Rahman Shokry was very impressed by the events that took place around him. Researchers who have examined Shokry’s poems believe that his poetry has had several traces of pessimism, an attidude which made them believe that he is but a pessimistic poet. However, there have appeared in his Divan several poems that make him an optimistic one. It is why Shokry'spessimism is not totally dark and there, we can see glimmers of hope that will reinforce one's will, and encourage one to remain hopeful. We can see rays ofhope anddesire in many parts of hispoetry. He believes that the human being has got a power that enables him to turn pessimism into optimism.So he can be definitely regarded as optimistic in several stages of his poetic and personal life. He does not look at life pessimistically, but rather realistically, wrapped in a little bit pessimism, though. In this paper, we seek to examine the validity of the critics' claim regarding Shokry’s pessimism by referring to their arguments, andtry to make Shokry's views unveiled by giving some illustrative evidence, an issue for which we can see no traces in the previous papers or books. We believe that Shokry cannot be regarded as a pessimistic poet, but rather a just critic can smell the flavour of optimism here and there in his poetry.
