The poetic of deviation in the poem of African songs by the poet Mohammed Al-Fitouri

Abstract

The importance of this study comes from the study of stylistic deviation, in one of the texts that represents the early experience of Muhammad al-Fitouri. The study aimed to reveal the artistic value of the poem (Songs of Africa) that carried the title of the first Diwan issued by Al-Fitouri in the year 1955, so the study analyzed the stylistic phenomena dominated in three levels of stylistic deviation in the poem, namely: substitution deviation, synthesis deviation, and phonetic deviation. The study uses the poetic approach that enables the researcher to monitor the linguistic facts under which the studied poetic discourse directs an artistic and aesthetic point of view. The study appeared that the text, which studied, contained many stylistic techniques that contributed to enriching his poetry and in carrying the poet's vision of colonialism and his practices against the African peoples. At the level of substitution deviation, the present techniques were the metaphor and the metonymy image. At the structural level, it emerges the interrogative style and the repetition style that includes appeal, negation, and pronouns. At the vocal level, the two predominant phonemic phenomena were the rhythm of sounds, and the rhythm of rhyme. These stylistic techniques represented an ideal melting pot in which the semantic text structure melted into its artistic structure. As far as these stylistic techniques were artistic tools that enriched the poetry of the text, they also came to bear the rejection of the poem.