Manifestations of Artistic Imagery in the Poetry Collection “Homeland Mirrors”: Simile and Metaphor as a Sample

Abstract

This research deals with a descriptive and analytical study of the poetry collection issued by the Union of Literarys and Writers of Babylon, which came under the title Mirrors, Homeland. It is a poetry collection co-authored by more than forty poets from Babylon Governorate They took the October revolution as a main starting point for their poems, which were an expression of the reality of Iraqi society, and the fluctuations and loss of general balance that the people of this society are experiencing in light of the collapse of the state’s systems and laws, They set off criticizing at times and calling for change at other times, trying to inspire hope in the souls of the youth of the revolution and awaken their aspirations to achieve the broad hopes and far-reaching aspirations these souls aspire to, The research as a whole aims to present to the reader the most prominent of the various poetic models contained in this collection, which carry within them some of the elements of the artistic image, which had a fundamental role in shaping the features of these models. As a basic tool for constructing poetry, and highlighting two important elements of these artistic elements: (simile and metaphor

The most important findings of the research are summarized as follow:

1-The poets of Babylon Governorate were united heart and soul regarding the “November Demonstration,” and this is what we found clear in this collection, which came as an expression of their unified position in light of the accelerating political events that struck current Iraqi society. 

2-The artistic image that the poets of this collection came up with was characterized by emotional sincerity, depth of emotion, and distance from ambiguity, because it was an embodiment of the reality of society, and what the situation had become, in the absence authority of the law. 

3-The simile was the most frequent element of the statement among the poets of this collection, and perhaps the reason for that is due to the nature of the simile and its role in clarifying the meaning and bringing the image closer to the mind of the recipient.