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    The document provides biographical information about Syrian poet Ali Ahmad Said Esber, known by his pen names Adonis and Adunis. It discusses his influential modernist revolution in Arabic poetry in the 20th century. The poem "Song" is excerpted from his work "Elegy for the First Century". Written in free verse, the poem reflects on Adonis's role as a poet, with his lungs and eyes representing his poetry. It depicts the poet singing and dying, leaving behind a singed elegy for other poets.

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    The document provides biographical information about Syrian poet Ali Ahmad Said Esber, known by his pen names Adonis and Adunis. It discusses his influential modernist revolution in Arabic poetry in the 20th century. The poem "Song" is excerpted from his work "Elegy for the First Century". Written in free verse, the poem reflects on Adonis's role as a poet, with his lungs and eyes representing his poetry. It depicts the poet singing and dying, leaving behind a singed elegy for other poets.

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    The document provides biographical information about Syrian poet Ali Ahmad Said Esber, known by his pen names Adonis and Adunis. It discusses his influential modernist revolution in Arabic poetry in the 20th century. The poem "Song" is excerpted from his work "Elegy for the First Century". Written in free verse, the poem reflects on Adonis's role as a poet, with his lungs and eyes representing his poetry. It depicts the poet singing and dying, leaving behind a singed elegy for other poets.

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    Song

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    The document provides biographical information about Syrian poet Ali Ahmad Said Esber, known by his pen names Adonis and Adunis. It discusses his influential modernist revolution in Arabic poetry in the 20th century. The poem "Song" is excerpted from his work "Elegy for the First Century". Written in free verse, the poem reflects on Adonis's role as a poet, with his lungs and eyes representing his poetry. It depicts the poet singing and dying, leaving behind a singed elegy for other poets.

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    Song

    By: ALI AHMAD SAID ESBER


    The Author Himself:
    • Ali Ahmad Said Esber, also known by the pen name Adonis or
    Adunis, is a Syrian poet, essayist and translator.
    • He was born January 1, 1930, currently 90 years-old, in Al-
    Qassabin, Syria
    • He led a modernist revolution in the second half of the 20th
    century, "exerting a seismic influence" on Arabic poetry
    comparable to T.S. Eliot's in the anglophone world.
    • His most notable awards are the Bjørnson Prize (2007) and
    Goethe Prize (2011).
    • He is most known for his works such as "The Songs of Mihyar
    of Damascus“, "A Time Between Ashes and Roses“, "A Grave
    for New York“, "Al-Kitab" (book), and many others.
    The Poem Itself…

    “Song”
    from "Elegy for the First Century“
    Bells on our eyelashes
    and the death throes of words,
    and I among fields of speech,
    a knight on a horse made of dirt.
    My lungs are my poetry, my eyes a book,
    and I, under the skin of words,
    on the beaming banks of foam,
    a poet who sang and died
    leaving this singed elegy
    before the faces of poets,
    for birds at the edge of sky.
    Genre of the poem

    Poem
    The Essence of the poem

    The message of the poem is based


    on what kind of poet Adonis is.

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