The Visual Formation and Emotional Impulse in the Divans of Muhyiddin Mahjoub

Abstract

Modern poetic discourse is no longer limited to focusing on language and content alone. The poet has drawn on other arts, such as painting and advances in the art of printing, and has exploited their potential for the benefit of his poetic experience and emotional impulses. It was natural for the modern poem to emerge with a new architecture based on vision and formation, placing the reader in front of a visual text, which he does not read linearly only; rather, he is forced to move visually, and stop to contemplate the spaces and marks, which creates a different reading time, breaks the monotony, and transforms the act of reading into an experience. This research is an attempt by me to shed light on the phenomenon of visual formation in modern Libyan poetry, through the poetry collections of the poet Muhyiddin Mahjoub, in which the visual formation and emotional Impulse of the modern Libyan poetic text are evident.