Chilean Poetry: Its Issues and Artistic Characteristics in Abdullah Hammadi's Work: "Pablo Neruda" as a Model

Abstract

Critical experiences are numerous, and critics' approaches vary from one period and country to another. Yet they share one central aim: to illuminate obscure areas and search for the sources of beauty within the literary text. Every critical experience is a distinct case that calls for study, scrutiny, and close examination from within. Such inquiry seeks to identify what distinguishes it and what it has contributed to modern and contemporary criticism. Whoever commits words to writing both sets a target and becomes a target of scrutiny. This paper therefore sheds light on Abdullah Hammadi's experience, which extends across poetry, criticism, and history. He is regarded in the Arab world as a specialist in Hispano-American studies, as demonstrated by his various works.

Abdullah Hammadi read contemporary poetry and approached the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda in an attempt to answer several questions. The most important concern the components of Neruda's poetic discourse and the sources and influences that made his poetry at times marked by strangeness and Surrealism, and at other times by Realism. The study also considers the literary current to which Neruda actually belonged. As for Abdullah Hammadi, he was both poet and scholar. He established a complete realm in the world of writing that gained broad recognition, a realm in which civilizations interacted, cultures coexisted, genres diversified, and literary forms harmonized. His early contact with Spanish and Latin American literature enabled this breadth.