Rashad "Boulder Fist" Hashim is a famous Sudanese Romantic Poet. Born in London

London

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, England

England

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 in 1902, Hashim was influenced by a number of poets such as John Keats

John Keats

John Keats was an English Romantic poet. Along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, he was one of the key figures in the second generation of the Romantic movement, despite the fact that his work had been in publication for only four years before his death.Although his poems were not...

 with whom he also shared a similar sense of melancholy. He was also known for being a strong supporter of the Liberal Democrats

Liberal Democrats

The Liberal Democrats are a social liberal political party in the United Kingdom which supports constitutional and electoral reform, progressive taxation, wealth taxation, human rights laws, cultural liberalism, banking reform and civil liberties .The party was formed in 1988 by a merger of the...

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Poetry

One of Rashad Hashim's most celebrated poems is his ode

Ode

Ode is a type of lyrical verse. A classic ode is structured in three major parts: the strophe, the antistrophe, and the epode. Different forms such as the homostrophic ode and the irregular ode also exist...

 to Zina Mahjoub

Zina Mahjoub

Zina Mahjoub 'الثعبان' was a Sudanese poet and song writer during the early 20th century. She also became the celebrated poet Rashad Hashim's mistress and long-time muse, inspiring his famous poem The One Who Makes The Sun Shine.Mahjoub was born on the 5 October 1933 and died on the 28 May 1957...

, ألذي تجعل الشمس تتنور (roughly translated to 'The One Who Makes The Sun Shine'), which brought him to prominence within his home country. It is credited with inspiring much of his later poetry, particularly during his "Blue Era" of melancholic poetry, during which his writing attracted a much larger international audience.

Death

Rashad committed suicide

Suicide

Suicide is the act of intentionally causing one's own death. Suicide is often committed out of despair or attributed to some underlying mental disorder, such as depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, alcoholism, or drug abuse...

 in the year 1948 in a bout of severe depression

Clinical depression

Major depressive disorder is a mental disorder characterized by an all-encompassing low mood accompanied by low self-esteem, and by loss of interest or pleasure in normally enjoyable activities...

 after long time mistress and muse Zina Mahjoub was forced into an arranged marriage by her wealthy family. He donated half of his fortune to charity

Charity (practice)

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 and is still today known as a benefactor by many charity organizations in London

London

London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...

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