The Phenomenon of Stylistic Exaggeration in Selected Examples of Nizar Qabbani’s Poetry
Iftikhar Saleem Mohieldin, Department of Humanities, College of Arts and Sciences, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, Jordan.
Abstract
This research paper attempts to study a dominant and striking phenomenon in Nizar Qabbani’s poetry, which is stylistic hyperbole. Repetition of linguistic and morphological forms as well as interrogation and appellation forms is intensely used. The poet exaggerates in the use of these stylistic features, many of them in one stanza, and sometimes extending over the body of the entire poem. Exaggeration forms a dominant pattern in the fabric of the poem and has its structural and influential dimensions in shaping the text and its expressive and aesthetic energy. The research deals with the concept of hyperbole in language, defines its meaning and interprets it, and accordingly applies it to the selected poetic models. The researcher used the method of analysis and induction to trace these features, and looked at some selected models from the poems of Nizar Qabbani, so as to highlight the phenomena of repetition, redundancy, parallelism and other features, and to demonstrate their impact on recipients and on the poem’s creativity. She concludes that exaggeration inflects positive and negative impacts on the poem, sustained by the variety of styles that are crucial to the textual makeup of the poem.
Key words :Hyperbole, Approximate, Construct, Creativity, Nizar Qabbani