THE ENIGMATIC LANGUAGE AND THE OXYMORONIC ABSENTRELATIONSHIPS IN THE POETRY OF SAMĪḤ AL-QĀSIM AND MAḤMŪD DARWĪŠ

This study deals with one of the most important elements in the structure of poetic language, which is the element of ‘language’ and all its rhetorical forms, figures of speech, magnificent classical resounding words that are transformed into a language of ambiguity, and the absent relationships between the words. Among the abundant styles that modernist poets resort to is the ‘oxymoron’ which plays a significant role in creating dual meanings, irony, and unusual relations between words. This study aims to find out how this lexical category serves the metaphorical style and how it lends the modern poem a new poetic feature, and how it contributes to the immortalization of the text by turning it into an infinite text. The study introduces demonstrations of oxymoronic intertextualities in sections and passages from the poems of Samīḥ al-Qāsim in his collection ‘Ağā’ibu Qānā l-Ğadῑda/ “Miracles of New Qana”, and a group of poems from Maḥmd Darwīš’s collects of poetry, mainly ᾿Aṯaru l-farāša/ “Butterfly effect”, Ka-zahri l-lawzi’aw ’ab‘ad/ “Like almond blossom or more far” and Lā ᾿urῑdu li-hāḏihi l-qaṣῑda ᾿an tantahī/ “I Don’t Want This Poem to End”.I n general, the study aims to answer the questions: Can we consider the absence-relationships and the employment of the oxymoron a foundation on which modern poetics is established? Is this kind of relationship the hook on which modern poets hang their poetic creativity, excellence and genius? Can we consider it a tool of compensation in the modernist poem, which gave up the employment of the poetic meter and rhyme?