Modern Techniques in Iraqi Women's Poetry

Abstract

This research explores the experience of Iraqi feminist poetry through the lens of modern poetic techniques, using Bushra Al-Bustani and Reem Qais Kabbah as applied models. It focuses on key techniques employed by female poets to craft a unique and competitive feminist poetic voice, such as symbolism, myth, persona, irony, linguistic deviation, intertextuality, genre intermingling, surreal imagery, and visual textual structure. The study demonstrates how these poets transcended traditional poetic frameworks and presented distinctive feminine visions reflecting advanced modernist awareness. It also highlights how these techniques contributed to transforming the structure of Iraqi poetic discourse and emphasizes the interplay between form and content, language and image, in producing a renewed and aesthetically rich feminist poetic experience.