Mazini was the most apparently Romantic of the Diwan group. In its expression of Romantic sentiment, his poetry of the self was in complete contrast with the objective poetry where the personality of the poet disappears behind the public mind. Also he...
Mazini was the most apparently Romantic of the Diwan group. In its expression of Romantic sentiment, his poetry of the self was in complete contrast with the objective poetry where the personality of the poet disappears behind the public mind. Also he expressed the malaise of the Egyptian intellectual at a time of uncertainly hovering between Arab and Western values. In that sense, his poetry was an authentic record of his age. Actually in the greater part of his poems, he experimented the subjective emotions, for example anxiety, sorrow, alienation of himself, with a few exceptions. And formally he used the blank verse, the rhyming couplets and the short poem, but in the most poems he used the Qasidah form. Meanwhile, he made a contribution to the development of the modern Arabic Free Verse. First, he emphasized the opinion that the poetry is emotion and feeling, and expressed it in his most poems. Second, he used the myth through the translation of John Milton`s The Paradise Lost, which was the major motif of poets of Free Verse in 1950`s. Third, he made a experiment on the several forms freer than Qasidah the fixed form.