بنيّة الحِجّاج في قصيدة (الموت والقنديل) لعبد الوهاب البياتيّ

Abstract

      This research examines the structure of argumentation in the poem Death and the Lantern by the Iraqi poet Abdul Wahab Al-Bayati. It does so by studying the fundamental elements of the argumentative relationship between the title, as the main structure of the poem, and the other components of the text, considered as indicative structures that engage in a dialectical relationship with the title, influencing and being influenced by it at various linguistic, rhetorical, and semantic levels. The poem Death and the Lantern was selected because it represents a modern text that embodies the poet's defense of the value of life in the context of a tragic conflict between the self and reality. This conflict imparts an argumentative nature to the text, fluctuating between direct argumentation and symbolic or suggestive persuasion. The argumentative directives resulting from the relationship between the title and the body of the text were revealed through the descriptive-analytical method, utilizing argumentation theory as a reference, and benefiting from various insights of this theory. The study concluded that the poem Death and the Lantern by Abdul Wahab Al-Bayati, in its structural relationship between the title and the body, tends to impose argumentative conclusions on the reader through dialectical persuasion, benefiting from the resources of argumentative language and certain rhetorical techniques. In this artistic style, some argumentative techniques emerge as an artistic equivalent through which the poet achieves his conclusions, such as the woodcutter and his cries.