The Image of Women in the Poetry of Omar Al-Anaz (Khajalan Yata arraq al-Burtuqal as a Case Study)

Abstract

This research aims to study the image of women in the poetry of Omar Al-Anaz, and to reveal the manifestations of beauty and alienation as two central dimensions in the representation of femininity within his poetic experience. The study begins with the premise that women in Al-Anaz's poetry are not presented as a traditional, romantic presence, but rather take on symbolic and aesthetic dimensions that intersect with questions of self, existence, longing, and alienation. Given the breadth of the poet's experience and the multiplicity of his collections, and the research scope that this entails which exceeds the limits of this study this research does not claim to be a comprehensive overview of the image of women in all of Omar Al-Anaz's poetry. Such a project would require an extensive study that could be undertaken in a master's thesis or doctoral dissertation. Therefore, the research is limited to the collection " Khajlan Yata’araq al-Burtuqal" as an applied model revealing the most prominent representations of women and the manifestations of beauty and alienation in his poetry. The research is divided into three applied sections. The first section dealt with the study of women between beauty and myth, the second section dealt with femininity and fertility as manifestations of beauty, while the third section dealt with love and passion between longing and alienation.