Homeland, Water and Desert Trilogy in Abdullah Al-Saikhan’s Poetry: Discourse Analysis Critical Reading

(Soliman Ali Mohamed Adul-Haq)

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Abstract

This research examines the trilogy of homeland, water and desert in Abdullah Al-Saikhan’s poetry. The work adapted discourse analysis of his poet. Such discourse has distinguish intellectual and psychological impacts that occupied the poet’s mind and consciousness. The importance of research in the originality of the study theme. Previous few studies that addressed Al-Saikhan’s poetry did not approach uniqueness of his discourse in details. Such discourse study should contribute to the transfer of the poet vision and perception towards various ideological issues. This study used a multiple level descriptive analytical approach. The first was to monitor the repetition the trilogy, homeland, water and desert in most of the poets printed in his three poet collections. The second approach was to uncover the way he adapted this trilogy to express social, intellectual or personal cases that occupied his mind and consciousness. The third approach aimed to detect the presence of the trilogy in all of his poetry aims. This includes the detection of the artistic harmony of sensation and symbolism in such poets. This study concluded that the trilogy, homeland, water, and desert was present in most of the poems in the published collections. This confirms the relationship between these components. The study also indicated that Al-Saikhan was able to employ the trilogy to express his needed discourse content. His discourse expressed several artistic objectives including description, Love Poetry, Mourning and Satirizing. He joined sensation and symbolism when using this trilogy. This was evident in his usage of locations that reflects. In many other instances, he used the trilogy to express his poetic vision. Key Words: Al-Saikhan, Discourse analysis, literary trilogies.
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