The Manifestations of the National Sense in the Prose Poem: Between Furnishing and Vanishing. Selected models from Al Maghout's poems

Abstract

The prose poem is the latest in literary creations. Despite the passage of half a century since its appearance, its flame still sends its spark in the books of critics. Where this poetic art was able to move the construction of the poem in terms of form and content. In his life, Al-Maghout faced alienation in all its forms and formed the obsession of the homeland and its vanishing identity as a raw material for him through which he seeks to furnish the features of the usurped self. These elements, which are considered the most important research data in his poetry, depict the size of the national sense that fluctuates between furnishing and vanishing, which the poet carries towards his homeland while he is in the utmost degree of human despair; He claimed in some of his poems that there is neither a city nor a homeland for him, to go back and remember Damascus, which appeared as a tattoo in a sentimental, emotional, human and civilized steadfastness. The prose poem is still a virgin topic because of the mechanisms of representing the national sense that fluctuates between presence and absence, and how can we search for this aesthetic when it depicts the transformations of the national sense in the midst of this huge amount of melancholy that does not leave his poetry according to a colorful aesthetic formation, which is the subject of our modest study?