Al -Rabee Boushama` Poetry: Political Struggle And The Literary Creativity

Abstract

The Algerian Liberation Revolution is considered a significant historical event, serving as an everlasting source of inspiration for Algerian poets who witnessed its inception and accompanied its events until independence. This gave rise to a revolutionary poetry that immortalizes the battles and heroism, glorifying a great revolution that brought about a radical change in Algerian society. A society that clung to freedom and rejected living under humiliation and slavery. Therefore, the Algerian people fought the colonizer using all means available, resulting in the revolution taking on various forms. Armed struggle and bullets were accompanied by the power of words, where literature, both in poetry and prose, played a crucial role in the revolution and proved to be the most effective. The writers, especially the poets, played a vital role in advocating for the revolution, documenting its important events and facts until the last breath of their lives. One of the poets whose name became synonymous with the revolution is the martyr poet Rabie Bouchemma, who experienced and lived through its events, fighting in its ranks and becoming its poet.