Manifestations of the Loving Self in Modern Poetic Production (“The Moon’s Lover” by Abdelmajid Farghali as a Model)

Abstract

    Abdel Majid Farghali is deemed one of the contemporary poets who concerned himself with the representation of the Arab woman in her different manifestations (the beloved, the friend, the mother), in a representation charged with a spirit of patriotism and an imagery of nature - and so it is a helpful distinguishing feature of his poetry reflecting his selfhood, sometimes enamored with love, other times longing for the past. Hence, Abdel Majid Farghali is also among the poets who prominently celebrated women and placed significant representation of women in their poetry. Accordingly, this research paper aims to convey the different representations of women in Abdel Majid Farghali’s poetry collection Lover of the Moon, and clarify the movements of the poet's emotional states in his representations of women, which emerge from the poet's manifestation of his self.