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A Phenomenological Analysis of Poetic Language in Adonis's "Songs of Mihyar the Damascene": A Heideggerian Reading | ||
| پژوهشهای ادبی ـ فلسفی | ||
| Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available Online from 23 September 2026 PDF (1.79 M) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.22080/lpr.2026.30474.1165 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Abdolbasit Arab Yusefabadi* ; Elham Ghorbani | ||
| Assistant Professor, Department of Arabic Language and Literature, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, University of Zabol, Zabol, Iran. | ||
| Receive Date: 08 November 2025, Revise Date: 02 May 2026, Accept Date: 07 June 2026 | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Phenomenology is the study of lived experience and how phenomena manifest themselves in consciousness. In the realm of literature, the phenomenology of poetic language focuses on how poetry, through language, discloses Being. The German philosopher Martin Heidegger views language as the "house of Being," arguing that poetic language, by transcending its purely communicative function, enables humans to dwell in the world and facilitates the unconcealment of truth. Adonis, a renowned contemporary Arab poet, in his work "Songs of Mihyar the Damascene," creates a symbolic persona named Mihyar to undertake a tragic re-reading of Arab history and identity in the modern world. In this collection, language, with its intertextual references to sacred texts and myths, operates not decoratively but ontologically; it reveals Mihyar's existential states within the very linguistic event itself. Employing a descriptive-analytical method and drawing on Heidegger's ideas, this research investigates the poetic language of this work. The findings indicate that the language in this collection transcends its communicative role, becoming the house of Being and the site for the unconcealment of truth for Mihyar's Dasein. Through mechanisms such as metaphorical transformation and fragmented structures, Adonis directly discloses the sacred and Mihyar's existential states within the linguistic event. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Adonis; "Songs of Mihyar the Damascene; " Phenomenology; Poetic Language; Heidegger; Dasein | ||
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