Stylistic Characteristics in the Literature of Shaheedah Bint al-Huda

Abstract

Style is the method used by the writer to express his feelings and emotions and to reveal his literary personality from others. He chooses words, formulates sentences and phrases, and brings vocal, linguistic, and literary elements to influence the addressee. Stylistics is a science concerned with analyzing the style of literary works objectively, and studies every linguistic feature of the text, including structures, sounds, and images, in order to reveal all the characteristics of style in a particular text. The martyr writer Bint al-Huda is one of the Iraqi poets whose biographies have been neglected by historians and scholars, despite the aesthetics of her literature. We can say that contemporary critics and researchers did not pay attention to her various literary texts. We can say that the poet has her hands full of transparent poetic images, and she looks at social, political and cultural events with her steadfast spirit, strengthened by the firm belief in the victory of her cause, to which she has dedicated herself and her poetic voice. The martyr’s poetry was distinguished by its religious tone, sincere emotion, and its reflection of reality. Her literature was a clear picture of her life and a mirror of her time. Through it, we find a comprehensive explanation of what she went through, and the events, wars, revolutions, and disturbances that happened around her, in an accurate description, characterized by a smooth and clear style. In this university study, we analyzed the poetic and prose texts of the Iraqi poet at three levels: 1- Vocal. 2-Synthetic. 3-Semantic. The phonetic level is concerned with the study of the four axes (vowels, whispered sounds, vocal harmony, and repetition), and among the results reached by the phonetic study: the predominance of whispered voices over voiceless voices, the abundance of vocal harmony in prose texts (with intensification of anagrams), and repetition (as a focal point in spreading one’s feelings and emotions And confirm her idea). As for the syntactic level, we discussed: nominal and verbal sentences, the tense of verbs, the method of introduction and delay, and the subject of declarative and constructional statements. Among its most important results: the control of the actual sentences over the nominal ones, and the poet’s departure from the usual pattern of the language by using structural methods such as commands, prohibitions, and interrogatives in the position of guidance and guidance, as well as: identifying the immediacy of sentences in the present tense. At the semantic level, we searched for the artistic image and how to use some ingenious improvements, including: counterpoint, division, and consideration of counterparts. Among the most important data that we have reached are: the abundance of eloquent simile (which is one of the most imaginative and beautiful levels of simile), the predominance of metaphor over explicit metaphor (it has a fundamental role in enriching the element of imagination), the immediacy of creating counterpoint and its effectiveness in prose, the abundance of consideration of counterpart, and also: the poet’s desire Oh In employing division to enrich the literary character of her speech. This critical study aims to reveal the most prominent phonetic, linguistic, structural and semantic features that are unique to the literature of the martyr Bint al-Huda, and it also aims to shed light on what is exquisite or stylistically distinct in her poetry.