Arabic Poetry: Trajectories of Modernity and Tradition

7 THE EDGE OF RECOGNITION AND REJECTION Why T. S. Eliot? The influx into Arabic poetics of T. S. Eliot’s mythical method, along ...

cosmopolitan, the ascetic and the exuberant, the realist and the dreamer, the Jayknr child and the citizen of the world, a point ...

us texts of enormous value for students of comparative literature. They are intertextual terrains of intense negotiations and di ...

What Nazeer El-Azma associates with al-Sayymb’s poetics applies with no less force to al-Baymtl.^11 Aside from his use of myth t ...

cross-cultural boundaries, but also to fight and challenge powers of oppression and tyranny. He is present to uplift the masses, ...

enumerates three, for “the ancient mythology of the Middle East, the figures of Biblical and Quranic narratives and English poet ...

dialogue with, Dante’s Beatrice or Eliot’s Lady in White in “Ash Wednesday” (1930). The presence that is not different from ‘M’i ...

tracing many poetic voices in al-Baymtl’s poetry, for “Al-Bayati read Mayakovsky, Nazim Hikmet, Paul Eluard, Aragon, Lorca and N ...

context meets death, “I am crucified at dawn, / on the walls,” he says in “Love Poems at the Seven Gates of the World.”^25 Exile ...

and endowed with greater connotations in Eliot’s exceptional poem. For al-Baymtltoo, this yearning is soon subsumed into his poe ...

“earth dreams of the birth of a prophet/ who will fill the horizon with justice/ and of the birth of the seasons.” Nevertheless, ...

What invites some close comparison between Eliot’s “Fire Sermon” and al-Baymtl’s “Nightmare of Night and Day” is their use of so ...

I had not thought death had undone so many, Sighs, short and infrequent, were exhaled, And each man fixed his eyes before his fe ...

of achievement. “Trivia occupied us,” and “we swat at flies,” We wear the masks of living people We are half men In the garbage ...

al-Baymtl’s mind on many occasions. Its recall of Dante’s purgatorial fire and its intensification of his The Waste Landpremise ...

hour.”^44 It encompasses and encapsulates the whole, but it declaims, what Erik Svarny terms aptly, “the unified self of spiritu ...

The speaker falls into silence, too, and if Eliot’s voice and the ghost “trod the pavement in a dead patrol,” al-Baymtl’s person ...

In a manner that recalls Eliot’s memory, al-Baymtlpoints to the creative moment as one beyond limits. Instead of letting it laps ...

and deliberate, and its intercultural register betrays this admixture while doing violence to both tradition and modernity. In s ...

8 CONCLUSION Deviational and reversal poetics—dissent, not allegiance The previous chapters have studied poetic sites of converg ...