Book excerpt: This monograph analyzes the poetry of the famous Azerbaijani poet and public figure Bakhtiyar Vahabzadeh (1925-2009). The author examines his work written on the topic of independence as characterized within the context of contemporary theoretical-aesthetical thinking. "Social-political processes play an important role in the basis of the national ideology. From this standpoint the collapse of the Soviet political regime and gaining of independence by Azerbaijan at the end of the last century caused fundamental changes both in the social-political life and the literary-culturological sphere..."