Internal reference to the title in the poetry of Ahmed Jarallah Yassin

Abstract

The Iraqi poet Ahmed Jarallah Yassin is among those poets who pay meticulous attention to the "threshold of the title," considering it a parallel text that encapsulates the philosophical and aesthetic vision of the poem. The internal reference of the title is evident in his poems, functioning as a semiotic system that alludes to the text itself or the poet's emotional experience, beyond direct external references. This internal reference in the poet's titles can be divided into two main axes:

First: The semantic reference establishes the existence of the marginalized, which our poet sought to reveal in his poems. Sadness, pain, and forgetfulness are not merely fleeting and temporary emotions, but rather existential states that the poet experiences and expresses. Joy, love, and hope are not entirely absent, but are present as absence, a wish, or a memory.