The Poem-Story and the Role of the Philosophical Tendency in Yasser Younes's Poetry

About this book

This book is a unique critical approach — not only for being a contemporary study of a contemporary poet, but for its boldness in tackling two axes critics rarely approach in this age: the phenomenon of the "poem-story" and the depth of the "philosophical tendency" in the poetry of Yasser Younes. In a time when whims and personal judgments have intermingled in the critical scene, this work comes to affirm a research method relying on the text rather than the person, analyzing and "gazing deeply" into a poetic experience that has transcended traditional lyricism to enter the space of philosophical narration. Critic Sami Nasif dives into Younes's poems to reveal how the metered rhymed poem transforms into an integrated narrative field joining poetry and story without losing the water of poetry. The core of this book lies in dealing with the philosophical tendency, an orientation requiring high culture from the critic. Through analyzing poems such as "The New Universe" and "Rassab," the critic reveals how modern poetry has become not merely a beautiful image or an emotion, but an epistemic stance and an existential meditation — a poem-story where the poet becomes a thinker narrating the riddles of existence, and where the philosophical question dresses in the garment of the tale. An important critical contribution to reading contemporary Arabic poetry beyond the usual classifications.