Syntactic Deviations and Stylistic Aesthetics in Mahmoud Darwish's Poem "Al-Mutanabbi's Journey to Egypt"
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https://doi.org/10.35516/Hum.2026.10057Keywords:
Stylistic aesthetics, deviation, Al-Mutanabbi's Journey to Egypt, Mahmoud Darwish, Palestinian resistance poet.Abstract
Objectives: This study examines stylistic deviation and its importance in the creation of meaning in poetry, especially through its defining poetic features. Contemporary poets unlock Poetry's latent potential through structural innovation, as it thrives on semantic alteration and rhythmic artistry. By transforming everyday settings into captivating worlds, they infuse their art with vitality and poetic resonance. This study highlights the stylistic devices that support this phenomenon, using Mahmoud Darwish's "Al-Mutanabbi's Journey to Egypt" as a case study.
Methods: To examine the poem's artistic complexities, the scholars used a stylistic method. This method offers a lens for a thorough comprehensive examination of the aesthetic qualities and dimensions of stylistic deviation.
Results: This study determines that Darwish employs stylistic aesthetics, especially through syntactic deviation. Techniques like syntactic inversion, omission, apostrophe, the interplay of expectation and unpredictability, and dissonant metaphor endow the poem with elegant and linguistic richness. These artistic subtleties reflect the poet's somber contemplation of the grim Arab reality, wherein repressive governments that have abandoned the true enemy, and now turn their oppression repressive against their own citizens and resistance groups.
Conclusions: The study concludes by recommending a reassessment Darwish's "Hissar li-Mada'eh al-Bahr" through the perspective of reception theory. This collection is replete with inventive stylistic devices that deepen the creative complexity of deviation and increase the suggestiveness of language, providing extensive material for future academic research.
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