القناع في شعر علي محمود طه

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Mask is a type of symbolism in poetry.

Mask is one of the most important techniques in poetry.

This technique has been widely used by poets.

Every symbolic mask may have a variety of literary meanings.

One of the salient features of contemporary poems is a shift from an emotional language to a poetic language by relying on symbols.

In this way, the poet talks objectively and indirectly rather than directly.

The poet may employ a variety of poetic techniques such as symbol and mask.

Ali Mahmoud Taha used religious and historical masks and symbols.

In those poems that he has used religious and historical masks and symbols, his descriptions are fine and sensible.

By using religious and historical masks and symbols, he revolutionized his poems.

This helped him to increase the power and influence of his poems.

Among the religious characters who are referred to by mask in his poems, we can refer to Adam and Eve, Noah, and Raphael.

Adam and Eve are the symbols of those people who have committed a sin and have been dispelled from the heavenwhile they are repentant for their wrongdoings.

Noah is the symbol of a person who guides people to salvation and savesthem from danger.

Raphael is the mask or symbol of someone who has really understood beauty and the art of creatingbeauty.

The poet adds his own characteristics to the character of those religious people.

He uses metaphor to imply thatthe mask or symbol refers to both those religious people and the poet himself.

The poet also uses myth and historicalplaces in his symbolic language.

For example, he refers to Granada, goddess of wisdom, power, war, and Athena.

Thegoddess of sin is a symbol of wrongdoing.

The poet uses the symbol of cross to talk about agony and pain.

This romanticpoet did not overlook the problems of people.

He uses several beautiful masks to talk about the pains of people and theirproblems.

Ali Mahmoud Taha is at the peak of romantic literature and symbolism.