The Aesthetics of Verbal Irony in the Poetry of Kazem Al-Hajjaj: Identity Loss and Innovation as Examples

Abstract

Verbal irony represents a reversal of the familiar meaning, aiming to surprise the recipient, challenge their convictions, and activate the contrasting meaning within them. This research seeks to explore the irony of identity loss and the irony of innovation, as the poet attempts to gather his scattered and dispersed identity through the activation of poetic irony between reality and aspiration.

As for the irony of innovation, it involves exploring unknown worlds and capturing images that have not yet been unfolded, turning them into paradoxical images associated with the poet as if he were their original creator.