Inspiration of Heritage in the Poetry of Nayïf Abu Obeid

Abstract

Heritage is an important source that writers rely on to inspire their literary material which they construct their poetic and prose texts on so they may become able to reformulate it in accordance with the writer's vision, culture, and possession of the tool in a way that qualifies him to present a distinguished literary text.

When examining the poetry of Nayïf Abu Obeid, We find it a distinct image in inspiration, interrogation and embodiment of heritage in his poetic texts to the extent that his poems can be considered as a faithful documentary record of the period he lived and of the kind of life he inherited from his ancestors both in written and narrated forms.

Our poet has had several poetry collections titled (For You, I Chant: Poems for Young Adults), as if he evokes the role of parents and grandparents who present stories to children when they go to bed. They pass on to them the summary of their experiences and what they inherited from their ancestors in order to build a generation capable of preserving their extension in a way that satisfies them.

Thus this paper aims to point out the embodiment of heritage in the poetry of Nayïf Abu Obeid, and to show the methods he took in reformulating heritage in poetry in a way that preserves the heritage on the one hand keep the poetic performance on the other.