Aesthetics

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Volume 12 · Issue 5 · October 2025

The Aesthetic Study of Different Types of Imagery in Bakir Ali's Poetry

Zhino Abdulrahman Mohammed, Hazhar Faqe Suleman Hussein

A certain kind of beauty is something we constantly seek out in the literary world along with ideas and messages. Understanding and evaluating the text using poetic and aesthetic standards, as well as the existence of literary and artistic background and experience, is necessary to uncover these beauties. Poetic imagery has long been regarded as the primary aesthetic genre in poetry that best conveys the beauty of literary works. Like any other contemporary Kurdish poet, Bakr Ali used poetic images and their types in his texts. This study provides a theoretical discussion of the key concepts of poetic imagery, aesthetics, and poetic imagery genres. The study intends to demonstrate the capacity of the poet's literary and poetic background in establishing kinds of poetic images as well as to identify and present the aesthetics of various genres and types of poetic images in the poet's poetic texts. The study concluded that Bakr Ali, as a talented poet with a rich background, used a variety of poetic images, including metaphor, simile, individual and accumulated images, sensory images, moving and static images, and so on, to paint his worldview, his thoughts, and his turbulent life with feelings and emotions. Emotionally speaking, poetic imagery takes up more space than other kinds of imagery. Simultaneously, he depicted all forms of poetic imagery from his poems' aesthetics, including language and the harsh reality it conveyed as well as sentiments, ideas, and national conceptions, among other types of poetic imagery expressed through melodic language.

Volume 12 · Issue 3 · June 2025

Adorno's Aesthetic Theory as the Critique of Art in Society

Twana Abdulrahman Abdullah, Azad Hama Abdulla

Although Adorno's philosophy represents more critical theory, but "Aesthetic theory” includes a broad view of criticism in many different fields, especially criticism of art, education and sociology. Adorno's critical view of art makes many contributions to contemporary argument, specifically his critique of art in modern and capitalism society. This investigation attempts to interpret art as critique of modern and contemporary capitalism society from Adorno's perspective, which is a focus on art criticism of society and then autonomous art as a strong alternative for alteration, with the rejection of traditional art and nonautonomous art. The study seeks to answer the following questions; what are aesthetics and autonomous art? Then, art as critique of modern and capitalism society with an interpretation of the culture industry and how to look at art, which is explained throughout the study in light of Adorno's philosophy.

Volume 10 · Issue 4 · December 2023

The Aesthetics of deviating of word structure of Nawzad Rafaat’s poems

Shakhawan Farhad Mohammed, Ibrahim Ahmed Shwan

This research entitled “The Aesthetics of deviating of word structure of Nawzad Rafaat’s poems” is a phase to display and identify the literary devices that estimate aesthetics as a criteria genre of poetry in which it reveals the beauty of poems. It is also a definite attempt to highlight the deviations made on word structure used in the poems. In addition, that demonstrates the poets’ active methods, ability, energy, conversational skills and expressions in using deviations to embody and express aesthetics in his poems.