Manifestations of Self and Other in Walaa Al-Sawaf’s Poetry: The Collection of “Silent Songs” is an Example

Abstract

Our research focuses on the two terms (the self and the other), in the collection (Songs of the Samut), by the poet Al-Hilli (Walaa Al-Sawwaf), and how to ideologize his poetic language, and its coexistence with these two terms, the first of which represents the poet’s self and his soul, and the second of his counterpart from whom there is no escape, so we see him at times. He indulges in the ego that is in love and indifference to the near other, and at other times hates and rejects the distant other. As part of this literary work, we will try to find out the textual interrelationship with the self and the other, in all its aspects, and was the poet successful as he weaved his phrases within the poetic text?, through readability. To analyze these related texts, and monitor the sources that led him and his linguistic dictionary to join opposites together, between acceptance and rejection.