Real and Imagined Place in the Poetry of Najman Yassin

Abstract

The place is an element of any creative work, as the place is an essential element in forming the beauty of the text, whether in poetry, novel, or short story, as the Arab writer was closely linked to the place in which he was born and lived, which drew him to it, and sang about it in poetry and proverbs, and this research aims to study the place in the poetry of Najman Yassin, specifically the real place and the imaginary place, and the aesthetics of this.

This research aims to study the place in the poetry of Najman Yassin, specifically the real place and the imagined place, and to show the aesthetics of this. Yassin is also a storyteller; through his interest in the places and spaces of the city in all its forms, starting from the house, the mahalla, the alleys, the market, and the river, which are considered real places, as well as the imagined place.

The research dealt with the study of the language and terminology of the place, and its concept in general, then identifying the real and imagined place in the poetic texts, and indicating the aesthetics of their formation by analyzing various poetry samples and from multiple poetry collections,

At the end of the research, we reached several conclusions, the most important of which are that the mahalla, the house, and the river are real elements present in these texts strikingly, and the imagined place is also manifested through the poet's influence on the Sufi experience.