The Babylonian Myth in Al Sayyab’s Poetry

Abstract

Due To AL.Sayyab,s leadership of modernizing movement in poetry and being the pioneer, he was very interested in searching for myths and symbols. He sought to employ them in his poetry motivated by his psychological, social, and political situation at that time. Hence it is possible to say that AL-Sayyab paved the way for the poets to use myths in their poetry and he was successful in employing them.