Badr Shakir al-Sayyab’s Poem Spring of Algeria: A Semantic Approach

Abstract

The study analyzes Badr Shakir al-Sayyab's poem "Spring of Algeria" semantically, elucidating the poetic experience of the Algerian Revolution.

It employs a systemic stylistic methodology, focusing on lexical structures (fields of sorrow, revolution, nature) and rhetorical devices (metonymy, metaphor, antithesis).

Central questions address the deployment of artistic tools for expressing emotional experience and free verse's capacity for semantic conveyance.

It highlights imagistic deviations and semantic relations (synonymy, antonymy) in meaning generation