Criticism of Authority in "Hidden Chapters from the Life of Imri Al-Qais" by Yassin Taha Hafez

The Iraqi poet Yassin Taha Hafez offers a particular poetic preoccupation in his poem Hidden Chapters from the Life of Amri al-Qais , which is one of the poems of his collection What the Last Preachers Say, published in 2009. Characterized by length, the poem reached twenty five pages of the aforementioned collection. This poem manipulates the mask technique in its poetic structure in relation to vision and objectivity. It mingles the present the past to represent a kind of a temporal and spatial movement, the aim of which is to elucidate the situations that leave their impact on the human being as an individual and the loss of renewed versions of life, so that things turn into permanent sadness and inevitable loss, or salvation, the situation changes into a new hope the poet does not lose it. The poetic discourse of this poem brings the storytelling to the stage. It is sometimes subjective. In other times, it expresses public views or delivers a direct speech when the poetic position requires that. It may rely on Intertextuality as a method of construction. The ultimate goal in this poem is to criticize reality through a number of poetic images of that demonstrate the human crisis and the factors of failure and ruin that surround it, especially in his vision of political and social life. This may explain the reason behind the poets reliance on historical incidents and its characters and to be hidden behind them to declare a poetic vision that mimics reality and its authority.