The poetic image in Qasim Al-Abedi’s diwan (Wheat with water tongue)

The image is one of the main tools used by the poet to build his poem and embody the different dimensions of his poetic vision, and through it, the poet forms his feelings, ideas, and thoughts in a tangible art form. In fact, the poetic image is the artistic form of the poet in a special graphic context to express his poetic experience in the poem.

The manifestations and types of poetic image are reflected in the multiple rhetorical templates of metaphor, analogy, diagnosis, and symbolism. Hence, the researcher was prompted to study the poetic image and its four elements (analogy, metaphor, allusion) in the poetry collection of the poet Qassim Al-Abedi through the analytical descriptive approach to study the extent to which the poet can use the four images and their ability to convey meaning and photography to the recipient. So it included three chapters: In the first chapter, the researcher discussed the poet’s life with his literary effects, culture, and place in the cultural milieu. The second chapter dealt with the concept of the poetic image in language and terminology and its concept in the ancients and modernists and its background and structure in traditional and modern poetry as well as its qualities. In the third chapter, the researcher studied the diwan analytical study of graphic methods such as analogy, metaphors, embodiment, and symbols.

Finally, the researcher reached some results, including that metaphors dominated Qassim Al-Abedi’s poetry and pictorial mechanics and showed how capable they are of expressing and linking them to the literary creativity of the poet.

As we see in his poetic images visions and subjective dimensions and other associations, the suffering of the poet and his unique sense of high humanity, which almost loses its eras in the midst of the fascination of life and the vicissitudes of its conditions, we find the poet expressing screaming words and going beyond the limits of its vast space beyond a philosophy subjected without cost and skill to a brief journey of life, embodied by images of eloquence in all possible meanings.