Stylistic Features in the Poetry of Palestinian Prisoners
Mohammed Mustafa Kullab, Arabic Language Department, Faculty of Arts, Islamic University, Gaza, Palestine.
Abstract
The study aims at studying the stylistic features in the poetry of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli occupation prisons to determine the nature of prisoner poets' use of language to shape their poetic achievement, express their experiences, find out the extent of their ability to benefit from linguistic stimuli, and to open up to epistemic horizons and semantic expectations that offer both the poet and the recipient active possibilities to imagine the investigation methods with all their physical manifestations and moral dimensions, and to produce a literary text which can make semantic and aesthetic effects in the conscience of the recipient.
The researcher seeks to utilize the analytical descriptive approach which is concerned with highlighting the most prominent stylistic features in the poetry of Palestinian prisoner poets to reveal their semantic and aesthetic values including the stylistic values of the verb, stylistic values of the adjectives in their metaphorical pairings, stylistic values of nominal pairings, stylistic values for everyday language.
Key words: style, stylistic, metaphoric matching, slang words, prisoners.