The lecturer, Asst. Prof. Zainab Hakim, has had her research paper accepted for publication in the journal Lisan Papers. The study provides an analytical examination of two poems by the Iraqi poet Badr Shakir al-Sayyab, with a particular focus on his famous poem “The Rain Song”, especially its renowned opening line: *“Do you know what sorrow the rain brings?”*. The research also explores al-Sayyab’s response to the poet Edith Sitwell through an analysis of the poems “The Rain Song” and “And the Rain Still Falls”, highlighting the artistic and semantic dimensions of al-Sayyab’s poetic experience and its role in renewing modern Arabic poetry, particularly in his use of the symbol of rain and the profound human and national meanings it conveys.