رسول بلاوی

Comparative literature consists of a set of methods and approaches, one of which is image of the “Other”. The image of the “Other” has attracted the attention of many contemporary scholars. They study the image from various angles, including reading the image of a nation, a religious sect, an alien personality in another nation's literature, as well as the image of a person, a sect, or an insider's group of the poet's community, such as The image of the ISIL that was negative in the literature of many Arab writers after 2012. Being next to the negative "other" afflicts "I" because it imposes its power and suppresses the freedom of "I" in life; in other words, freedom of the "other" is at the expense of my "freedom". This research attempts to examine the image of the "other" in Fadhil Al Azzawi’s poetry and, on the basis of a descriptive-analytical method, seeks to answer this question: What is the images of foreign “other” and the Arab seen in t Fadhil Al Azzawi’s poetry? The research findings show that the reading of "other" is not only related to the approaches of literary criticism, such as structuralism, etc, but also to other branches of the humanities, such as history and sociology. The image that the poet portrays from the "other" first comes from his needs, then the needs of the Iraqi and Arab societies.