Honest nationalism in poem of Ahmad Moharram

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Ahmad Moharram is one of the contemporary poets who felt poverty and deprivation along his life. Since his view toward life is a realistic one, so his literature is a realistic one that can be a whole mirror of his contemporary society. Since nationalism and patriotism is one of the prominent indices of realistic literature, so this essay tries to analyze national morale of this poet.
Poem and literature of Ahmad Moharram expresses his honest national morale. His honesty and belief to express domestic problems in a time of foreign injustice and autocracy is unique, even his honesty is not a good taste for colonialists. This caused he was not famous and had not any authority during his life time. Meanwhile, this was not an obstacle for him to neglect basic subjects of country.

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