Heritage Textual Links in Ghazi Al-Gosaibi's Poetry: Al-Hima Collection as a Model

Abstract

INTRODUCTIONIn many of its contemporary experiences, Arabic poetry absorbed the spirit of development and modernization. The contemporary poem, in many of its aspects, was loaded with a new vision that fits the spirit of the age intellectually and creatively. However, it could not dispense with the heritage data that poets adopted. It was given an expressive, suggestive, and semantic energy through heritage sounds, with what it added of artistic originality . Since the 1970s, Arab poets seek to use poetry as a tool for expressing the simple human experience, through possibilities, correspondence of the senses, reliance on symbolic structures and symbolic colors, the images that represent the internal symbol that is sometimes ambiguous. One of the most important stages of it is projecting the old events onto the contemporary. There have been several combined and interrelated factors behind the prevalence of the phenomenon of recalling the heritage character in our contemporary Arab poetry and behind the regression of our contemporary poet to the inheritance in general so that it is not possible to separate them. The heritage, with all its historical dimensions and cultural load, constituted a form of connection to the heritage, and a fertile spring to which contemporary poets returned to be inspired by their artistic images and poetic imaginations to document the relations of the present generations with the previous ones and to develop a sense in the recipient and make him feel that he is not cultivating roots, prompting them to do so by an intertwined set of cultural, artistic and Public factors. It is difficult to definitively separate them and to set precise boundaries for the area of influence of each of them and to be sure of the point at which the impact of this factors ends and the effect of the other starts (Benyo et al., 2022;Khan et al., 2021). Perhaps, the most prominent of these poets in Saudi poetry is Dr. Ghazi Al-Gosaibi whose poems record his influence by the ancient heritage, especially the Arab heritage related to the issues of the nation. He is mixed with the poet's tenderness, leading to deep connotations. We passed on some of what we mourned and shared a sense of his bitterness in remembering the days of immortals and symbols that generations have nourished throughout history. The poet employed symbols as words or narrations, or symbols on which the Arab character was built and developed! In his invocations of traditional characters, he did not summon any of the traditional personalities except those that were related to himself, his experiences, and the issues of his time. These characters were diverse to