The place of the symbol in creating novel meanings in Ahmed Dahbour's resistance poems based on Daniel Chandler's theory of consciousness

Document Type : Original Article

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1 Professor of Arab Language and Literature, Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University

2 Professor of Arabic Language and Literature, Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University

3 3PhD student of Arabic language and literature, Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University, Tabriz

10.48310/alle.2025.4511

Abstract

Ahmed Dahbour is a Palestinian poet of persistence and a contemporary cryptographer. Among the various types of linguistic and literary elements, cryptography always forms one of the most frequent elements of his poetry, and by using it, the poet makes the meanings and concepts of his poems invisible to the discerning readers. The present article, using a descriptive-analytical method, examines the role of cryptography in Dahbour's persistence poems based on Daniel Chandler's theory of consciousness in order to achieve his main goals and motivations in these poems, in addition to representing the meanings hidden in the poet's poems. Daniel Chandler, an English semiotician, believes that a writer has the necessary qualitative and diagnostic knowledge and has divided his theory of consciousness into five dimensions: social, textual, interpretive, perceptual, and real. By examining the codes in Ahmad Dahbour's poems of persistence, based on Daniel Chandler's theory of consciousness, it is concluded that the concepts of Dahbour's poetry of persistence correspond to the five dimensions of this theory. The research findings indicate that the political and social conditions prevailing in the poet's society have a direct impact on the application of these codes in his poetry; social codes are manifested in various dimensions such as physical, behavioral, and spoken language, and textual codes are highly frequent with the help of metaphorical language to express the conditions in society, which are full of suffocation. In interpretive codes, the poet, considering his own mentality, visualizes the future of his land and often creates realistic codes by referring to religious figures and stories.

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Journal of Research in Arabic Language and Literature Education
Volume 7, Issue 2 - Serial Number 2
September 2025
Pages 142-158

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