Document Type : Original Article
Authors
1 Associate Professor of Arabic Language and Literature, University of Mazandaran
2 Associate Professor, Department of Arabic Language and Literature, University of Mazandaran
3 Master of Arabic Language and Literature, University of Mazandaran
Abstract
Focuing poets and writers of the world on The concept of motherland have long been the and includes different semantic equivalents. As one of the resistance poets, Ahmed Matar has always expressed his love for his country and devoted his life to fighting for its freedom. Matar talks about various issues, including his homeland, in his seven poetry notebooks, which are titles to as "Lafatat". Based on the descriptive-analytical method, this research aims to investigate the concept of homeland and its thematic equivalents in Ahmad Matar's poems. The results of this research show that the homeland in this poet's poems is equivalent to concepts such as: Iraq, all Arab lands, Palestine, the poet himself, wife, parents, and poetry and poetic; And in the meantime, the conceptual equivalent of all Arab lands as the homeland has been noticed by the poet more than others.
Keywords: Ahmad Matar, Motherland,Homeland, thematic equivalent, equivalent
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