he Oxymoron and its Indications in Poems of Khalil Hawi

Document Type : Original Article

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1 pgu

2 Persian Gulf University, Bushehr

Abstract

There have been many studies concerning the oxymoron and its implications such as symbolic, synthetic and predictive techniques. What we seek to discuss in this study is the oxymoron in poems of Khalil Hawi which has been the reflection of his esthetic experience and intellectual property floated in his era and stimulated by contemporary themes and modern techniques in order to dissolve the familiar signs and come up with new unfamiliar ideas. In his technique, as an example, the adjective substitutes the noun, which might be considered as a violation to language rules; also the metaphor is the base of such oxymoron. This study aims to expose the unfamiliar poetic techniques of Khalil Hawi by examining the indicative oxymoron of different concepts such as nature, religion, body and vulgar language, by means of metaphor, analogy, paradox and repetition. In this study we will discover that the poet has come up with renewed indications of oxymoron via contemporary themes and modern techniques.

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