The Stylistics of Openings in the Poetry of Munther Abdul-Hur

Abstract

This research examines the opening lines in the poetry of Munther Abdul-Hur, considering them a primary textual structure that contributes to the production of meaning and guides the reader's perception. This is achieved through a stylistic approach that combines syntactic and semantic structures.            The research is based on the premise that the opening lines in the poet's work represent a moment of semantic and aesthetic intensification, revealing aspects of the poetic experience and its worldview.The research, in its structural aspect, focused on analyzing the verbal sentence in the opening, and what it carries of connotations of movement, tension and transformation, in contrast to the nominal sentence which performs the function of stability, stillness and reporting, highlighting the mechanism of interaction between the two patterns in building meaning and shaping the semantic rhythm of the text.            As for its semantic aspect, the research deals with the mental image as a rhetorical-imaginative structure, formed through simile, metaphor, and metonymy, with the semantic shift and symbolic intensification it allows, and it reflects the themes of war, wound, memory, and alienation, which makes the opening an effective semantic entry point in reading the poetic text.