The motives of national independence in Mammad Araz’s lyric poetry
Keywords:
Azerbaijani poetry of independence period, Mammad Araz’s lyric poetry, “Come on, Rise up Azerbaijan!”, “The Homeland is calling us”, “Oh my God, This world is not the one you created”Abstract
In the article it is analyzed the poetry of 90s of Mammad Araz, the great poet of
independence. Mammad Araz’s creativity of this period is very valuable as peculiar poetic chronicle
of our national liberation war. Mammad Araz is one of the premises of the Second War of
Independence in the history of the Azerbaijani people with some literary contemporaries such as
Bakhtiyar Vahabzade, Sohrab Tahir, Khalil Rza Uluturk, Gabil, Sabir Rustamkhanli and others. The
most poems of the poet written in these years are included in the golden fund of our modern
national classics. The detailed analysis of the poem “Stand up Azerbaijan!” helps to define not only the ideological- aesthetic features and pathos of Mammad Araz’s creativity but also of our poetry of
that period.
