Dream technique, modernist poetry, Fadhil Al-Azzawi, Iraqi poetry, poetic masks, subjective dream
The technique of dreaming is one of the means to which the poet resorts to disclose his innermost feelings and anxieties that he tries to conceal. It is an implicit system that makes him explicit with clear intentionality and full awareness. It is a safe refuge that provides freedom of speech and space for expression. In Fadhil Al-Azzawi’s work, it appears in several forms that simultaneously imitate the self and society. These vary between the subjective, which is directly related to him, the collective, which is related to society and his generation, and the fantastical, as a form of rebellion that cannot be accessed without a mask to hide behind. Al-Azzawi's dreams thus imitate the modernist thought of contemporary Iraqi poetry. It is a conscious process of the brain and mind linking talent and awareness. It relies on condensation, masks, and revealing meaning in a new way, a different mechanism from the subconscious to the existential poetic space.
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