المُفارقة الدرامية في شعر مُريد البرغُوثِي

Abstract

Modern Arabic Poetry has always been detached from the distant past in form and content. It has considered old poetry a product of a bygone era in which the ancients worked as hard as they could to produce their experience that was a legitimate child of their age, not as poetic templates or sanctities that cannot tolerate discussion. Modern poets have realized that communicating with the past does not happen through copying ancient poets, or living their lives, but rather through the study of their experience, understanding it and trying to benefit from it, and then starting a new experience which fits the era in which it was born. Modern poetry began to benefit from the various Arts of literature and it could utilize new techniques from all arts in a phenomenon that could be called "interaction of Arts". Poetry started using the techniques of cinematography, short stories, novels and drama. Modern poetry has become open to all arts that could provide it with distinct experiences. This would not have happened if modern poets hadn't dared to rebel against the strict rules which tightened its grip on the old Arabic poem. This research is an attempt to monitor models of dramatic irony employed by the poet Mourid Barghouti to benefit from an art technique which, in its turn, would convert the poem from one sound and one feeling to multiple sounds and contradictory feelings. Mourid Barghouti has been able rely on theatrical arts, such as dramatic conflict, polyphony and irony, in order to earn his poem the depth that fits the era in which we live. This research does not only trace examples of different types of irony, but it will also monitor models of irony and its impact on the structure of the poem and how successful the poet was in employing them. The experience of Mourid Barghouti is a vivid one that does not impose any prior models on the poem. Thus, he could escape a trap that most poets, who tried to interact with the Palestinian cause, fell in, their poetry resulting into something like a political announcement, which is filled with screaming and empty of poetry.