The Poetic Montage and the Moment of the Revolutionary in ʾAdunīs' Poem: Hādhā Huwa Ismī / This Is My Name

Abstract

This study deals with the poetic structure of ʾAdunīs’ poem Hādhā Huwa ʾIsmī (This Is My Name), specifically focusing on the poet’s employment of the technique of poetic montage as a tool to formulate the poetics of the text. This poem is rich both on the visual printing level and the audio rhythmic level as it employs audio-visual effects within poetic images that move consecutively in a way that appears random and scattered but is actually controlled by the poet’s authority to create a compound dramatic poetic text consisting of sequential sections that are deeply connected. Additionally, this poem can trace minute details in the soul of the revolutionary and his life, which constitute a mixture of conscious insistence on undermining already established systems and the deep internal connection with the dream of fertility and resurrection that is expressed by the erotic relationship reflected in some of the sections of the poem.