Sublime Love in M. Mezyed’s Eros Sings in My Memory: A Critical Study
Abdul-Settar Abdul-Latif Mal-Allah
Basrah University, College of Arts
DOI: https://doi.org/10.25130/jls.3.3.2
Keywords: -Sublime -Poetry -Love -Longinus -Metaphor -Mythopoeia - Clash of Civilization -Palestine - Mesopotamia
Abstract
This critical study deals with the Sublime Love in Munir
Mezyed's Collectoin: Eros Sings in My Memory (ESMM) (2014)
through 'metaphors of Love' employed. It starts with 'the
Sublime' in terms of Longinus; and then traces it throughout the
poet's 'created' mythopoeia which, from the outset, blends the
Classic 'Eros', and the 'Oriental gods of Creation' together; out
of such a 'blending', a 'New Eros' presides over the Ex Nihilo
Pre-Creation 'Chaos'. To achieve its aim, the study excavates
how 'metaphors' of Love are accommodated to the poet's final
message in denying contemporary violence and incongruities
from meeting with his 'Habibti'. So, it embarks on I.A. Richard's
view of 'Metaphor' as a starting-point before 'following-up', in
ESMM, 'metaphors of Love' to pin down where the poet's
mythopoeia, Sublimity of Love and the relevant metaphors run
side by side. Thus, the Study lists the Semantic domains the
metaphors of Love 'derive' from in order to have a panoramic
