Manifestations of Poetic Ability in Contemporary Arabic Poetry (Mawazanah Al-Sayyab, Ahmed Matar, and Muhammad Al-Maghout)

Abstract

The poetic ability appears in poets and is evident in their ability to create poetic images and imbue them with concepts, ideas and feelings that they want to convey to the minds of recipients through imagination and emotional alternatives. Sometimes, at the moment of poetic creativity, the language is at the mercy of their hands, fused in a special context through which it is expressed to another reality far from that pattern in which the vocabulary was arranged and paved within its circle. The poetic ability is based on main pillars that the glorious poet does not dispense with consciously employing them in the composition of his texts, including emotional alternatives, the artistic image, and the creation of a suggestive atmosphere in the poem. Poetry is the art of language, its formulation, and the expression of the soul’s desires and thoughts, but with a veil of imagination, metaphor, and imagery.