Montage Methods in the Poetry of Sa’di Yusuf

Abstract

The poetry of the Iraqi poet Sa’di Yusuf reveals a substantial interaction with the art of poetry, especially the technology of the cinematic montage. The current study aimed to detect to what extent the poet benefited from cinematic montage technology by employing it in the structure of his poetic texts. The descriptive-analytical approach was adopted in approaching a group of selected texts different collections of Yusuf’s poetry to demonstrate the montage methods employed in such poetry. It demonstrated the poet’s ability to use these methods, investing them in developing the poem by creating new structures that expressed modern contents and visions. The study concluded with the findings that the poet used different montages to structure poetic text to crystallize his poetic vision. Therefore, his poetry acquired new aesthetic, artistic, impressive, and communicative values. The most common montage methods in his poetry were sequential montage, interconnected montage, analogy-based montage, and contradiction-based montages. Each of these methods has its themes.