The Sentence and Its Levels in Selected Models from the Poetry of Adnan Al-Sayegh: A Linguistic-Semantic Study

Abstract

This research studies the sentence at its various levels as a fundamental unit in constructing poetic text. This is manifested in the analysis of selected models from the poems of the Iraqi poet Adnan Al-Sayegh, in light of a linguistic-semantic study that embodies the structure of language and its expressive richness. The syntactic and rhetorical style is part of the formation and continuity of the sentence, through which the process of reception and reading of the text is achieved according to an aesthetic experience that requires interpretation and analysis based on the components of the text and its potentials, which appear starting from the sentence and its different structures. The simple sentence was studied as a structural unit with complete meaning, and the verbal sentence as carrying internal dialogue and directed poetic discourse. Additionally, the phenomena of fronting and postponement were examined, which create semantic and aesthetic shifts in the context, alongside repetition as a means to highlight and intensify meanings, and ellipsis which contributes to conciseness and suggestion. The study showed that these levels do not only perform a structural function but also contribute to enhancing poetic meaning and constructing the text in a way that combines aesthetic formation and semantic depth, reflecting the poet’s awareness of linguistic structure and his ability to employ it artistically and skillfully to serve the poetic experience.