Poetic Titling in Hazem Rashk al-Tamimi’s Diwan ‘Al-Tiktik’ Rhythm

Assist Lect. Huda Adnan Abbas 356-375

Abstract

    Our poet Al-Tamimi has received significant public and critical attention due to the richness of his poetic experience and the depth of its artistic, emotional, national, international, and human impact, as well as his ability to innovate and introduce whatever suits his thought, issue, and art. On the political level, the poet bore the burden of the national issue and the tragedy of his people in general, and his city (Nasiriyah) in particular. I have specifically chosen this poet because he belongs to the generation of contemporary poets who have excelled in recent decades in both the metered and rhymed poem as well as the free verse poem, achieving poetic quality in his work and in its textual thresholds, which have formed parallel texts that this study examines in relation to their meanings. Our poet is one of the prominent poets in the field of modernist poetry, and one of those who presented a unique and distinctive poetic model in the field of this poem through several collections bearing exciting titles for others, including the collection (The lament of the reed, As recounted by the hoopoe, The letters resembling rain, and Al-Tiktik’ Rhythm). The study comprises two chapters and a conclusion. As for the research methodology, the researcher adopted a descriptive and normative approach to extracting research findings and developing ideas. He relied on a plan summarized in the following sections: The first section: defining the concept of the title and its importance. It was divided into two sub-sections. The first sub-section defined the concept of the cover title; the other subsection focused on the title in general among poets. The second section included a definition of the term «poetics» and the structure of the title in the poetic corpus. It also incorporates two subsections; the first one focused on the poetics of title collections; the second sub-section addressed the poetics of title poems. The research yielded an important result, namely that the title of the collection predominates over the poet›s output in his collection.
Keywords: Title, Poetics, Recipient, Semantics, Text