Portrait in the poetry of Helmy Salem

Document Type : Original Article

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Ain Shams University. Faculty of Al-Alsun. Arabic department

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Portrait in fine arts means representing the human face in sculpture, painting or photography . Portrait was borrowed by literature and writers as one way of self-expression and the other, Portrait is a phenomenon in the poetry of Helmy Salem (1951-2012) since his second diwan "Alexandria be the pain"1981, In his poems, we always find a portrait of characters who accompanied him in life and had an impact on the formation of his personality. The research studied three forms of portraiture in the poet's poetry: Surrealist portraiture, impressionist portraiture and expressive portraiture. The research concluded that the portrait in Helmy Salem's poetry was not an external depiction of the character's features, but an internal one that Standing on the formation of the character intellectually and psychologically The techniques of drawing portrait characters varied, including narrative techniques through the act of narration, the voice of the narrator and the sequence of personal actions. and the characters of portraits reflected one of the faces of the poet Helmy Salem himself.

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