Nazik Al-Malaikah

ELEGY OF A was an Iraqi female

poet and is
WOMAN OF considered by many
to be one of the
NO most influential
contemporary Iraqi
IMPORTANCE poets. Al-Malaika is
famous as the first
By: Nazik Arabic poet to use
Al-Malaikah free verse.
August 23, 1923
June 20, 2007
❑ Life
Of Nazik
Al-Malaika
Born in the capital city of Iraq,
h Baghdad, she was the oldest of
seven siblings. Her father was a
poet and the editor of a 20-
volume encyclopedia.
L
I
she then studied Arabic
F literature in Baghdad
E University. She got at
advanced degree in
comparative literature in
Princeton University.
She returned to Iraq and
accepted the position at
Baghdad University where
she then thought for many
years.
Known to lead the
proponent of the arabic free
verse movement, which
introduced modern poetic
forms and informal diction
to arabic poetry. Al-
Malaikah has written
literary criticisms as well as
poetry.
❑ Vocabulary
Enricher
By: Nazik
Al-Malaikah
August 23, 1923
June 20, 2007
 • Hovering.
• Vaque
• Alleyways
• Lodged
• Obscurely
❑ Vocabulary •
•
Shrill
Squabbling
Enricher
❑ POEM
By: Nazik
Al-Malaika
August 23, 1923
June 20, 2007
 ELEGY OF A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE

When she died no face turned pale, no lips trembled

Doors heard know retelling of her death
No curtains open to air the room of grief
Noice fall of the coffin to the end of the road
Only hovering in the memory, a vague form passing in the lane

The scrap of new stumbled in the alleyways

It's whisper, finding no shelter
Lodge obscurely in an unseen corner
The moon murmured sadly
 Night, unconcerned, give way to monitoring
light came with the milk cart and the call to fasting
with the hungry mewing of a cat of rags and bones
the shrill cries of vendors in the bitter streets
The squabbling of small boys throwing stones

Dirty water spilling around the gutter

smells of the wind which played about the rooftops
playing in deep forgetfulness
playing alone
THANK YOU FOR
LISTENING!!!!!