Bitter humor techniques in the poetry of Yahya al-Samawi (his resistance poetry as a model)

Abstract

What is meant by bitter or black humor is that type of humor that is related to the poet's political and social life. Bitter humor has taken a large part of contemporary Arabic poetry. Poets have used it to express their political and social opinions that touch the fate of peoples and the events taking place on the scene. From this point of view, the famous Iraqi poet Yahya Al-Samawi employed black humor as a suggestive expressive mechanism to stir emotions and awaken consciences regarding the destruction and decay left behind by tyranny and occupation. The poet sought to raise the level of his language and its semantic secretions by drawing from the Holy Qur’an and its formal and semantic aesthetics. His poems are overflowing with Qur’anic indications, heart and soul. The symbolic connotations in his poems have a wide area that gives them strength and dynamism