Analyzing the use of characters In the ode "Rachel and her sisters" by Nizar Qabbani

Document Type : Original Article

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Associate Professor, Department of Arabic Language and Literature, Hakim Sabzevari University, Sabzevar, Iran

10.22080/ltcat.2026.26704.1003

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Calling characters is one of the artistic techniques that poets use in different ways to depict their desires and goals. The ode "Rasheel and the Sisters" is one of the outstanding odes of Nizar Qabbani, which was written after the bombing of Qana by Israel in 1996, and the calling of various religious, historical, mythological and literary figures has given a special effect to this ode. In the present article, in a descriptive and analytical way, the calling of different characters in the aforementioned poem and its reasons have been discussed; The results of the research show that the cultural, political and social conditions of the Arab world and the various intellectual and cultural watersheds that the poet used and the mind of Waqad and the vision of his critic were effective in calling the characters of this ode. This call sometimes includes religious figures such as Christ, Imam Ali (a.s.) and Imam Hussein (a.s.) and sometimes includes Arab and non-Arab mythological figures such as Cadmus, Don Quixote, Antara, etc. By using these characters and the hidden and obvious meanings in them, Nizar has tried to convey his attitudes, messages, pains, experiences and criticisms on the enemies and the Arab society to the audience in a literary form.

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