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Journal of Semitic Studies 2005 50(2):341-355; doi:10.1093/jss/fgi042
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‘MY Roads Leads to the Dark Bedouin Girl’: An Aesthetic Reading of Khalil Hawi's ‘The Flute and the Wind‘

Yair Huri

Ben Gurion University of the Negev

Khalil Hawi (1919–82) was one of the most influential modernist Arab poets in the second half of the twentieth century. The main thrust of Hawi's literary output is steeped in his transcendent vision of Arab national rebirth, a vision which strikingly pervades almost every poem he wrote. While most of Hawi's critics underscore this sense of political commitment and social awareness, the article discusses Hawi's poem The Flute and the Wind (‘al-Nay wa'l-Rih’, 1961) and maintains that a close reading of the poem reveals the poet's acute preoccupation with purely aesthetic aspects — aspects which have to do with the very nature of his poetry and particularly the poetic language and the creative process.


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