Piramerd
‘Kurdish Famous Poet” in his poem "Ashrat Hawara”, which described Mulla
Mustefa Barzani when crossed Aras River is trying to combine both Classical and
Modern Hero.
In this
piece, I would like to concentrate on three Kurdish poets who were through their
products made poets as a tool of Nation Building.
Piremerd
Indeed,
Piremerd (Haji Tofiq 1867 – 1950) was the unique Kurdish intellectual in twenty
century in south part of Kurdistan who devoted his cultural and journalism
works in Nation building sector. We vividly
felt discourses for behalf of building nation by joining history with Mythologies
and political subjects at beginning of twenty century.
Piremerd
intelligently worked on Kurdish symbols and features. He precisely worked on
Nation Building symbols. Piramerd ‘Kurdish
Famous Poet” in his poem "Ashrat Hawara”, which described Mulla Mustefa Barzani
when crossed Aras River is trying to combine both Classical and Modern Hero. But
after him, the entire of Kurdish intellectuals except Masoud Mohammad have
faced cosmopolitism disease.
At the
first glance, Piremerd looks like classic poet and then Journalist, but
according to me he is more than a poet and journalist.
Fayaq Bekas and
soft power
Kurdish
poets of early twenty century were not looking at poems as a language game, but
they had looked at as effective political tools in the process of Nation building
and National discourse.
Ahmed
Muxtar Jaff (1898-1935) called to his collogues instead of describing lady’s
face try to concentrate on "Kurdish Nation’s suffers”. He shifted poem’s duty
from love of Lord and humans to love of Nation.
In one
of his poems, he said:
Study, because study is used to defeat
enemy
At every time is a shelter against
them
According
to him, studying is used every time as a strong weapon against enemies of
Kurdish nation. He believes that graduated nation cannot be deceived easily.
Dildar… peak of
defense literature
Diladar
experience (1918 – 1948) is importance and sensitive experiences. He cautioned
Kurdish people as a "Kurds” not as Muslims or any other identities. Before at nineteen
century Haji Qadri Koye represented. But Dildar in the poem of "Ay Raqib” reach
peak. His poem "Ay Raqib –Oh Nation” spontaneously becomes a national Kurdish anthem.
He combined history with language, present with future of Kurds and made a
survival signs of Kurds.
While
contexts of "Ay Raqib” by Dildar should not be a universal context because it
narrated a special nation’s suffers on history period, but it is not local contexts
as cannot cross borders and leave its impacts on every Kurd’s memory. A true theory
is the theory that confirmed any universal contexts has been locals. When you
read the story of "Diblins”, the events are not only for Diblins alone, it attracts
readers to their daily life and what was going on in their capital. Similarly, Dildar
has showed a history of Kurdish through a piece of poems, why not making this
poem as an anniversary?