Loss in Poetic Practice: The Poets of Al-Shirqat as a Model
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This research explores several key themes related to loss, beginning with its definition both linguistically and terminologically. The concept of loss intersects with multiple meanings, encompassing both physical and emotional dimensions. It includes the disappearance of shared mnemonic elements within the poets’ experiences. In poetry, loss manifests in various forms that reflect emotional experiences, whether existential, such as death, absence, and separation, or emotional, such as deprivation, longing, and memory. All of these serve as motivators that inspire poetic expression, reflecting the poet’s personal experiences with what has been lost.
The study also addresses the duality of presence and absence, which provokes the poet’s memory and stimulates a comparison between past and present consciousness. This dynamic unveils emotional depth in the creation of poetic texts. Moreover, the research delves into elegy and the pain of memory, emphasizing how elegiac emotion can generate authentic feeling and the interplay of words that intensify meaning. These are fundamental aspects of lyrical poetry, which draws its material from subjects closely tied to emotional experience.
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