The Metaphor in Abdullah Asbah Poetry

Abstract

The present study aims to highlight a rhetorical image (i.e., metaphor) in a collection of creative poetry works for a Yemeni poet Abdullah Asbah who successfully portrayed the metaphor of both types personification and stereoscopic. This may make his collections of poetry a real pleasure for a reader. The study has reached the following results. First, the personification metaphor prevailed in the poetry of Abdullah Asbah, as he gives life to concretes, and he deals with it as if they are living beings, illustrating through these artistic paintings that have reflected his visions of time, dream, poem, love and sadness. Second, he portrayed the static and inanimate tangible from their sphere to the human sphere as to create other artistic paintings such as morning, birds, and wind. These intangible and tangible illustrations have appeared in the light of metaphor as major metaphor paintings supported by partial metaphors illustrating their lines. Third, as for the borrowed action verbs, they added up movement and liveliness to these paintings. Forth, the nouns, they have granted the metaphor their personal character through giving human traits to the thoughts and inanimate.