آليات الرفض و التمرد في شعر أحمد مطر

الملخص EN

Lexically, rejection means to leave something.

You say: "he rejected me, so I rejected him".

It has been stated in Allisan: "to reject something is to refuse, and to disapprove it", i.e.

to leave and quit it.

Mutiny, on the other hand, means to exceed the limits.

You say: "the man rebels"; which means that "he disobeys and exceeds the limits", and "the boy has rebelled against his people" which means he disobeys and becomes obstinate and insistent.

In terminology, rejection and mutiny have the same lexical implication for according to the poet, rejection means disapproving and leaving the repulsive reality and criticizing it ironically, whereas mutiny, parallel to its lexical implication, refers to refusing, disapproving and disobeying the others' point of view, and announcing rebellion against the contaminated and inferior reality.

Strikingly, it meets rejection in this respect though mutiny is much stronger than rejection.

Yet, both agree in referring to disapproving, denying, and ridiculing reality.

Rejection and mutiny become the fate of the Arabic poet.

Thus, the cruel circumstances and the successive crises motivate him to adopt a rejecting and mutinous situation since it is the only weapon he has to restore his dignity (it creates a distance between his ambitions and dreams, and reality and its warrants).

Ahmed Matar is one of the reality-rejecting and mutinous poets if not their precursor.

He has taken refuge in rejection and a resort in mutiny.

In fact, he has more than one satisfactory reasons to do so.

Hence, he belongs to a generation that set off its poetic journey synchronous with social and political crises and disasters.

Ahmed Matar, in particular, is an Iraqi poet who has lived during successive crises and disasters on the individual and social levels.

He has found himself restrained in hard times and unable to achieve neither his nor his generation's dreams and ambitions.

Ahmed Matar has lived under oppression, tyranny, injustice, and exile whose tide overwhelm over all fields.

This stimulates the poet to adopt rejection and mutiny, and to leave silence and obedience.

As such, they become the poet's weapon to restore his dignity and participate in depicting the image of a utopia where justice, equality, and freedom are achieved, and where oppression and exile disappear.

Ahmed Matar's poems and Lafitat are a kind of rejection poems that aim to attract the attention to and identify the dangers of a bitter reality, and instigate and reject it.