The Poetic Image in the Novel Harvest in the Land Sown with Mines by Taha Al-Zurbati

Abstract

The poetic image in the novel is not poetry as such, but in bringing novelistic discourse from narration to an aesthetic formulation, intermingling prose with poetic language, merging narration with description and description with linguistic musicality. The novel is one of the most expressive literary genres in relation to imaginative and metaphorical representation of scenes, events and situations and this study adopted the stylistic approach to analyze the imagery in the novel as the object of the study, which is the novel of Taha Al-Zurbati entitled Harvest in the Land Sown with Mines. The image in Al-Zurbati isn't really an ornamentation but a functional element that works in tandem with narrative to create narrative vision and perspective, and to communicate the cruel existential experience of the Iraqis in war, repression, and displacement, where narrative and poetry merge and generate a symbolic language.