توظيف الشخصيـة القرآنيـة في الشعر العراقي المعاصر (1991 ـ 2015)

Utilizing the Quranic Characters in the Modern Iraqi Poetry (1991-2015)

Abstract

The Quranic quotation is a common theme in the Iraqi poetry, specifically of late, and what stands out the most, is the frequent usage of some Quranic individuals, some of which is covered in this very research.

I’ve tried to study the different occurrences of these kind of quotations during the 1991 and right to 2015, an era full of political shifts and alterations, that distinctly affected the community as a whole, which led to shaping/altering the poets brainchild, their own poems.

In the first chapter we’ve studied the utilized characters from the righteous and wide left to the wicked, up from prophets, and down to the less well-known and less recognized ones, even some of the extemporized through someone’s own interpretation, characters without any solid historical sources, those who aren’t mentioned comprehensively in the Quran.

Then in the second chapter we’ve studied the patterns in which the aforementioned characters put into application, patterns like disguising allusion, story telling and symbolism.

While in the final chapter we focused on simile, metaphor, and metonymy