Metaphor as an Influential Element in Constructing the poetic image in the Poetry of Abdul-Kareem Radhi Ja'far

Abstract

The paper aims at figuring out the metaphor and its influence on elucidating the poetic image in the poetry of Abdulkareem Radhi. The poet wants through it to construct a poetic image based on collapse of barriers standing between the poet's senses. Subsequently the paper provides, after tracking the metaphor phenomenon in his poetry, a preface dealing with metaphor as an effective element in structuring the poetic image and describing it as an important landmark in modern poetic text. The paper comprises two sections; the first is entitled "The Metaphoric Formation of Image", tackling the term metaphor and its influence in his poetry. While the second section is entitled "The Composite Metaphoric Image) which reveals two types of images first: resulting from the interpenetration of senses and the second is the colorful image.Through what passes I depends in the writing process of this research on a number of sources, the most important of are The Development of the Artistic Image in Rhetorical and Critical heritage by Jaber Ahmed Asfoor as well as The Development of the Artistic Image in Modern Arabic Poetry by Naeem Elyafeey the paper ends up with stating the most important results achieved

Keywords

Metaphor