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free from any dogmas. But the poet saw the people's suffering and social inequality, grieved for the
Armenian exiles (the “hairens of wandering”), and philosophically considered the events and fates of men (the “hairens of meditation”). Democratic and humanistic in its essence, antifeudal in its orientation, the poetry of Kuchak was a challenge to medieval dogmatism. The hairens of Kuchak have been praised by later poets as works of true lyricism and great individual creativity.
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in a song entitled 'Muted lines', which won a
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