Heritage Textual Links in Ghazi Al-Gosaibi's Poetry: Al-Hima Collection as a Model

Abstract

This study presents a brief introductory view on the relationship of the heritage text with the modern Saudi poetic texts and its manifestations through one of the historical and popular figures in the poetry of Ghazi AlGosaibi as one of the most important contemporary poets in the Kingdom. The poet invoked such a link by reverting to the past, harnessing his deep culture that extends its roots far in time, and his evoking many of its events across the spectrum of his symbolic poetic text. He did so to express some of the Public and cultural issues and the changes of the era that were of some concern to him at the time. His invocation of it and his use of its symbols revealed a broad and deep cultural read, and fruitful interaction with his time by evoking the historical texts absent in the text and present in it by linking the inheritance to modernity through the characters that he created to hide behind them. He gave them the chance to talk about themselves. Al-Gosaibi was also free from the old poem form. He relied on the suggestive contemporary language through projections on the character. He, then, searched for the justifications that contributed to the selection of these characters and not others, such as the harmony and internal coherence between the heritage character and the elements of building
the text, and the position of the modern Arab poet on the human heritage, his relationship to it, his vision of it as well as its connection to the poetic and emotional experience. He also explained the aesthetic effectiveness offered by intertextuality to the poetic text, intending to build the modalities of the heritage text’s relationship with the modernist text.