Poetic Discourse Strategies and the Construction of a Universal Vision in the "Ice Age and Post-Ice Age" Binary by Khalil Hawi

Abstract

This study aims to uncover the poetic discourse strategies through which the cosmic and existential dimension is shaped in Khalil Hawi's duality: "Ice Age" and "After the Ice." It proceeds from the basic premise that poetic vision is not an abstract idea conveyed by language, but rather a rich linguistic structure constructed through complex rhetorical and stylistic mechanisms, in which the phonetic, syntactic, semantic, and pictorial intertwine.

The study concludes that Khalil Hawi's poetic discourse is an integrative one, endowing the text with a universal, comprehensive dimension and expressing the major questions of humanity: (death, resurrection, freedom, and rebirth). The results also confirm that language, for him, is not a neutral medium, but rather existence itself, and that the cosmic vision represents the final product of complex and intertwined rhetorical strategies, rendering the poetic text a cohesive unit that combines aesthetic and philosophical-ontological dimensions.

The study adopted an analytical and descriptive approach based on the tools of modern linguistics within a stylistic framework that enables an approach to the levels of Khalil Hawi's poetic discourse. This approach combines linguistic precision in analyzing textual structures with interpretive depth in elucidating their meanings, achieving an integrative vision that highlights the organic relationship between the rhetorical strategies and the visionary structure of the two poems.