Reciprocal Technique in the Poetry of Ahmed Swelam

Ahmed, Zainab Magdy El-Sayed; El-Bendary, Hassan Ahmed; Ahmed, Zainab Abd Al-Karim

doi:10.21608/jssa.2020.119121

Reciprocal Technique in the Poetry of Ahmed Swelam

Document Type : Original Article

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¹ Girls College - Ain Shams University

² Prof. of Rhetoric & Literary Criticism

³ Lecturer of Rhetoric & Literary Criticism

10.21608/jssa.2020.119121

Abstract

This research paper is a study of reciprocal technique in Ahmed Swelam's poetry. This technique highlights two concepts: conscience exchange, and temporal exchange. The conscience exchange had a prominent presence in the poetry of Ahmed Swelam. His poems vary between his voice that represents (the conscience of the speaker), which the poet employs when he talks about himself. Another voice in which he absents himself as if it is another voice that creates him (the conscience of the absent), the poet employs when he wants to reveal his secrets and wants it to be shared by the recipient. The third voice (the conscience of the addressee) is the beloved to whom he speaks and it is his homeland. He also used the time exchange in his poems, as he begins to speak in the form of the past to express and confirm the event, then to amend it to the present, to confirm the continuity of the event and change it to the future; to wish that the problem will be removed or that some future things will be removed, then it will be removed from it until another time. Departing from the ordinary is the secret of the beauty of the poem, which must not go at the same pace in order not to become a stereotype that leads to the boredom of the recipient.

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