The Poetic Image Between Reality and magination: A Reading in Amjad Nasir’s Collection “2002 AD”

Abstract

This study examines the poetic imagery in the collection 2002 by the Jordanian poet Amjad Nasser (Yahya al-Numayri al-Nu'aymat, 1955), seeking to uncover how the poet establishes a creative dialectic between reality and dream through an integrated system of imagery. The study proceeds from a central hypothesis: that Amjad Nasser does not merely transcribe reality directly, but rather reshapes it through multiple artistic mechanisms that transform the poem into an open poetic space in which the dreamlike and the real are inextricably intertwined. The study adopts a descriptive-analytical methodology and focuses on three principal axes: the simile, the mechanism of sense transference in its two dimensions of personification and embodiment, and the symbolic image. The research concludes that Amjad Nasser, in his similes, forges unconventional analogical relationships that venture into regions of productive ambiguity. The mechanism of sense transference proves to be his most effective artistic tool: personification endows inanimate objects and abstract concepts with life, while embodiment grants abstractions a tangible, sensory form, thereby dissolving the boundaries between the concrete and the abstract. The symbolic image, meanwhile, constitutes the deepest semantic layer of the text, charged with multifaceted existential and cultural dimensions.