Mechanisms of image formation in Ibn Al-Qasira’s poetry

Abstract

The image is one of the critical concepts that has multiple roots in Arab criticism. Most of its definitions are that it represents a certain mental idea sent between the two poles of the sender and the receiver with a certain code or technical tools through the system of speech and the fabric of language. No matter how we try to define it, there are differences between the audience (receiver/critic) because it differs from one critic to another, from one intellectual cultural framework to another, and from one time to another. Therefore, its concepts vary with the multiplicity of its trends and intellectual and philosophical starting points. Through the definitions of the image circulated among writers and found in books and literary, rhetorical and critical studies, it is difficult to stand on the true meaning and basic, initial concept of the image in a decisive manner. Its important role appears in the study and criticism of poetry, as its presence shows the artistic and aesthetic value of literary discourse, because it is the product of the imagination of the creator and his brilliant intelligence, to depict his reality, his feelings and sensations towards it and its impact on the recipient's psyche. The poetic image appears, through the previous analysis, to be characterized by beauty in its meaning and structure, as it is a stylistic mechanism of artistic construction, and a rhetorical means in poetry. Perhaps the poetic image in our poet’s poetry is the essence of a mental experience created by his conscious and creative feeling and consciousness of that experience.