Influence of the poetic imagination in the poem of Walid Abdul Karim Al-Azami

An imagination is the framework in which the poet pours out his feelings and perception of reality in order to convey it to the audience and arouse his feelings. Therefore, such images derive their importance from the creative and verve values that they represent. Poetic imagery is a tool that the author employs in order to shape his vision and attitude toward reality by combining words, phrases, truth, and imagination with poetic feelings and emotions. The most obvious features of the image are its effectiveness and vividness. This characteristic is how the image is formed, as well as the creator’s ability to move or calm it and express its details. In fact, imagination plays an active and important role in conveying the poet’s experiences and feelings to others. Different methods of imagination make the works of art of the poet clearer and more precise, and this is a phenomenon that we encounter in many of the poems of the Iraqi poet Walid Abdul Karim al-Azami. With various imaginations, he tries to create what he wants in the reader’s mind and increases the influence of his literary work. Anyone who follows the poetic images of the Iraqi poet Walid Abdul Karim al-Azami will find that his poetic imagery is divided into three main pillars: 1-The simile image 2-The irony image 3-The methafor image This research, which is based on a descriptive-analytical method, attempts to deal with the most important poetic images of this great Iraqi poet and their impact on the formation of the art of Arabic poetry.