Memory in the poetry of Alawi Al-Hashem

Abstract

The concept of memory overlaps and intertwines with many concepts close to it, including: remembrance, image, past, time, mind, matter, experience, feeling, imagination, knowledge, history, oblivion, narration, story, metaphor, identity, personality, writing, dream...etc, and other concepts that focus on the work of memory in humans, but the relationship of memory to imagination It took diverse and complex images that were embodied in the creative work. The convergence between the trinity of imagination, memory and beauty worked to form an image or a snapshot that formed interlaced references that affected the creative work. And from the present to the future, memory is the identity that worked within the fabric of the text as intertexts, dialogue, or references that took an allegorical image that revealed the contents of consciousness or the poetic self and what it could offer of semantic reproduction furnishing the past; For the purpose of revealing the meaning of existence that was linked to the free imagination’s ability to shape the worlds of the past in accordance with achieving a balance between the creative ability to transform memory into an activity and dynamism that forms beautiful worlds for lived reality, which we can sense in the creative imagination in the experience of the Bahraini poet Alawi Al-Hashemi.