The Rhetoric of Visual Formation in Modern Iraqi PoetryThe poetry collection (Letters of Your Name) by the Poet Amir Nasser (Selected)

Abstract

Since the beginning of the twentieth century and slightly before, human culture has increasingly relied on the visual dimension in its communication with the recipient, investing in the discoveries and successes achieved by scientific progress in this field. This visual influence has extended to most aspects and fields of life, finding its way into various human arts and literary texts produced by the peoples of the world. The modernist poetic movement has benefited from this innovative aspect of the cultural product, as poets sought to create a new type of rhetoric based on visual communication with the recipient; to convey emotions and transmit textual meanings that the rhetoric of written text was unable to carry and deliver. This research is concerned with studying this approach in constructing the modern poetic text, using selected poems from the collection (The Letters of Your Name) by the Iraqi poet Amir Nasser. The researcher observed the use of visual formation in his poetry through six visual structures, which formed the main axes of the study in this research, preceded by an introduction and concluded with the most important research findings. The researcher relied on the descriptive-analytical method based on describing the phenomenon and analyzing the related poetic texts, in addition to employing psychoanalytic tools in an attempt to reinterpret the psychological meanings that the poet infused into his texts.