''Rain Song'' (انشودة المطر “Unshūdat almaṭar”) is a famous 1960 poetry collection and Arabic poem by
Badr Shakir al-Sayyab One of the "great poems in modern Arabic poetry", it has been compared to
T.S. Eliot
Thomas Stearns Eliot (26 September 18884 January 1965) was a poet, essayist, publisher, playwright, literary critic and editor.Bush, Ronald. "T. S. Eliot's Life and Career", in John A Garraty and Mark C. Carnes (eds), ''American National B ...
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The Waste Land
''The Waste Land'' is a poem by T. S. Eliot, widely regarded as one of the most important poems of the 20th century and a central work of modernist poetry. Published in 1922, the 434-line poem first appeared in the United Kingdom in the Octob ...
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Song
The poem was set to music by Saudi singer and composer
Mohammed Abdu
Mohammed Abdu ( ar, محمد عبده ; born June 12, 1949) is a Saudi singer who is renowned across the Middle East and Arab world. He has been described as "''Artist of the Arabs''."
Early years
Mohammed Abdu was born on June 12, 1949 in ...
in 1992.
References
1960 poems
1960 poetry books
Iraqi poetry
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