Alienation and strife the duality of demolition and construction in the poetry of Mohamed Jerboa "The Shadow of Rain"

Abstract

 The article presents, in its theoretical side, the concept of alienation in language and idiom, it also shows the relationship of alienation to man, religion, and philosophy, and in Arab culture. On the practical side, however; it traces the presence of alienation in the poetry "Shadow of Rain" by Muhammad Jarboa focusing on the threshold,the lexicon, imagining, and then in the poems. After that, it tracks the presence of the conflict in the same divan focusing on warfare through the lexicon, imagination, and the poems. This article, therfore, reveals a topic that has rarely been criticized in the Algerian literature especially it works on a poet of this genetation and on a recently published poem in 2020.

The research has reached a set of important results: the poet’s intense sense of alienation, as the great poets who bear their nation and societies worry. This was evidenced by what the poet employed at the level of the threshold, the lexicon, and the pictures. This sense of alienation did not drive the poet to weak havens. By contrast, it made him stand in the face of the storm resisting what we termed "strife," and that was confirmed through dictionary and pictures.