Rhetorical Structure of Shawki Beze’a’s What the Man Who Did not Die in the last War Said

Abstract

Rhetorical structure is subsumed under the rubric of aesthetic communication due to its suggestive nature stemming from linguistics displacements which bestow upon the poetic message metalanguage, or what Abdulqahir Aljurjani calls ‘meanings of meaning’. It is a language characterized by ambiguity that incites and, stimulates the reader to wonder and generate meaning. Rhetorical structure has a salient role in the reader’s interaction with the poetic texts as studying rhetorical forms entalis a reading that discloses its aesthetic and technical potentialities in a total framework, showing its role and its ability to create the aesthetic. Based on the view derived from the response and interpretation theory, the present study seeks to analyze the rhetorical structures of the poem ‘What the Man Who Did Not Die in the last War Said’ by Shawqi Beze’a. which appeared in the beginning of his second volume of verse entitled ‘Departing to Tathrib’s Sun.