Document Type : Original Article
Abstract
Sometimes, creating vivid imagery in literary works is considered the most significant mission of a writer. This can be achieved by combining narrative elements with literary devices to bring the literary space to life and make it accessible for the audience. Through dialogue between characters or quotes from the author, readers receive the message of the work, engage with its setting, and sometimes even stimulate their own introspection.Undoubtedly, poetic storytelling is one of the most sensitive and effective literary mediums for conveying profound literary themes and narrating important socio-political events. In this regard, a descriptive-analytical approach has been employed to examine the narrative-rhetorical components in Jamil Sidqi Al-Zahawi's poem-like story "Ela Fazan". The research findings demonstrate that relying on narrative elements such as characterization, dialogue, conflict, and political-emotional settings, Al-Zahawi crafts his work without being bound by artificial sophistication. However, he succeeds in creating an enticing sense of curiosity for his audience.Right from the beginning of his work with a skillful choice of title and even in crafting an appealing introduction to the poem-like story, he cultivates an atmosphere of ambiguity within readers. In its initial verses, through deliberate use of natural symbols intertwined suddenly with a familiar family environment experienced by readers unexpectedly shifts towards a politically turbulent setting. This gradually instills symbolic fear and oppression within such an environment into his audience's consciousness.
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