Arabic Literature

Conceptual Metaphor in the Existentialist Reading of the Cconcepts of Freedom and Death in Khalil's Poems

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

Arezo Chalsari 1
Ali Asvadi 2
Tayebe Akhoundi 2
Mohamadreza Khezri 3

1 epartment of Arabic Language and Literature, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Khwarazmi University, Tehran, Iran.

2 Department of Arabic Language and Literature, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Khwarazmi University, Tehran, Iran.

3 Department of Arabic Language and Literature, Faculty of Literature and Human Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2023.355636.612651
Abstract
One of the basic topics of cognitive linguistics is conceptual metaphor based on which an unknown and abstract conceptual field is inferred and understood by matching with known and concrete concepts in the human mind.that these well-known concepts originate from human experiences in all aspects of his life, including philosophy and literature. On the other hand, existentialism is a philosophical school that uses literature as a means to express its ideas; Existentialism's philosopher's turn to literary expression caused philosophy to merge with literature. Existentialist literature deals with themes such as loneliness, fear, sadness, emptiness, freedom, and death. Meanwhile, Arabic literature and especially poetry were not affected by the concepts of this school; And an example of this attention and luck can be seen in the poems of the contemporary Lebanese poet Khalil Al-Hawi, because the resonance and reflection of the elements of freedom and death are evident in his poems. He beautifully and artistically portrays the concepts of despair, pain, humiliation and despair caused by the consecutive failures of the Arabs and especially the uprising of 1967, which had a special echo in his soul and soul - all of which are abstract concepts - with concrete and tangible concepts in his poems. He has used conceptual metaphors to make his poems even more heartwarming. Therefore, the authors intend to analyze the conceptual metaphor in the existentialist components of freedom and death in Al-Hawi's poems with a descriptive-analytical method.

Keywords

existentialist
conceptual metaphor
Johnson
Khalil al-Hawi
freedom
death
Subjects
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  • Receive Date 18 February 2023
  • Revise Date 09 May 2023
  • Accept Date 10 May 2023

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