The artistic image in Amal Dunqul’s Poetry between “The Stone Cake” and “Against Whom?”
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Amal Dunqul, artistic image, The Stone Cake, Against Whom?, strength, weaknessAbstract
Poetry is a mirror reflecting reality and life; it breathes its air and is nourished by its renewal. The poet is the strong driving force of the wheel of creativity, attempting to create a more beautiful life and a rich literature that pulses with hope and optimism. The poet cannot achieve this goal without employing artistic tools through which he constructs his poems, most notably the artistic image—an effective device that turns the poet into a painter who creates artistic scenes enriched with imagination and poetic language. Amal Dunqul is one of the contemporary poets who renewed the structure and content of poetry. He realized the importance of the artistic image in intensifying meaning and expressing emotional flow with artistic sincerity. His poems thus became expressive of his personality and positions. He was known as the poet of rejection and prophecy, and his poetry reflected a life journey—despite its shortness—based on struggle and refusal of humiliation: a struggle between oppressor and oppressed, freedom and slavery, pride and submission. This appears clearly in his political poetry.
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