Poetry as an Epistle and Creativity in the Collection of Poems, Echoes of Life

Abstract

ABSTRACT

This research deals with the relationship between the concept of creativity and the artistic tools and techniques it requires, and the  message or implications that these creative forms carry, and the controversy that arose between different schools and critical trends, between those who believe that the message or commitment in creative work weakens its artistic value and that creativity must be freed from the  implications that make it direct creativity, and those who see the importance of  implications in creative work because imagination devoid of  implications is nothing but delirium. The research discusses the concept of epistolary literature in this context as the Arab civilizational equivalent of what is called committed literature, which is linked to Marxist Theory and the Socialism-referenced tendencies that revolve around it. The application came to the poetical collection of Echoes of Life to reveal that epistolary poetry is not separate from the components of creativity and its techniques. Such literature does not necessarily have to be literature akin to rhetoric and preaching, as some accuse it. To address these problems, the research adopted a number of methodological principles such as artistic description and analysis.

Keywords: poetry - epistolary - commitment - imagination - creativity