The Objective Equivalent in the Poetry of Abu al-Qasim Al-Shabi

An Applied Study in his Book "Songs of Life

Abstract

This study aims to study a new standard of modern literary criticism, which entered the Arab literary arena on Western literature, which is what is known as subjectivity and objectivity or the "objective equivalent" that appeared at the hands of the American critic (TS Eliot) in his saying: (The Poetry is an escape from emotion by turning it into art. In this, the writer may conclude to embody a particular emotion or incident that affected his life in a direct way, and in this we refer to subjectivity, which is the first image of expression, but there are social, psychological and political conditions that the poet resorts to embodying his suffering in an indirect way, and this is a reference to the “objective equivalent” that the writer uses He uses it in his poetry. This research examines the extent to which al-Shabi uses the objective equivalent in his book "Songs of Life" in an applied study to shed light on some of the words that al-Shabi used in his various poetic poems because of his artistic impact compatible with his feeling and feeling, for psychological, social and political conditions that he embodied in an indirect way that he resorted to, which is known Subjective subjectivity or objective equivalent.