Eel Beg Jaf and an Analytical Study of His Pentameter Poems

Abstract

The research is based on a poem by the poet Eel Beg Jaf (1492-1552) in the Kurdish language. The researcher explained the truth of his personality and analyzed his poet with criticism and interpretation and pointed at how he was assessed by other writers. The research begins by clarifying the concept of apocalyptic literature which introduces the poet's predictions within this literary genre. One of the themes deals with the comparison between the prophecies of the Kurdish poet and the European Prophet (Nostradamus). The researcher shows that there is a large gap between them, where Nostradamus used the complex language in writing his predictions in the quadrants, and to find multiple interpretations for his predictions because of the language he used, which is the language of the mixture between Latin, French and Italian. There is also a comparison between the Kurdish poet and Iranian poet Nemat Allah Shahli who wrote his predictions in the form of a long poem in Persian. Through our reading of the poem, we find that there is a great influence on the Kurdish poet. We have seen the same traditional style, similarity rhythmicity, and the easy way to write these predictions. In the other sections of the research there is an analysis of some poetry dimensions about rhythm, rhyme, language and content. The Descriptive analysis method is used for writing this research.