Employment of the Oxymoron in the Traditional Poem and the Modern Prose Poem

Abstract

The employment of the Oxymoron, which is a modern linguistic device, is one of the significant techniques that enjoys evident presence in modern poetry and influence on the reading and interpretation processes. This study defines the technique of the Oxymoron as a poetic style, explores its first signs in the traditional Arabic poetry and determines the track of its process till its appearance in the prose-poem in the modern period.

The importance of this study is that it highlights Oxymoron as a key to analyzing poetic text and that it offers a comparative study between classic and modern poetry and highlights the difference in dealing with the Oxymoron and its development over time. In addition, this study presents a new definition of Oxymoron, new classifications based on the theoretical material around it and poetic readings.