Semantic Deviation of Quran in Mohammad Afifi Matar's Poetry

The holy Quran and its invaluable and elevated concepts have always had a significant presence in the writings of poets and literary scholars in different ages. The Quranic texts and the beauties applied to them are in such a way that make the holy book away from a distinguished time or period, hence; poets and scholars have always paid attention to the unique structure of verses and hidden rhetoric and tried to make their own words coherent by bounding it up with divine words. Mohammad Afifi Matar is among the contemporary Arab poets who in his works are inspired by the holy Quran and its divine verses and most often has combined the literary aspects of the verses with his own poems to create new images. Like many past and contemporary poets and being inspired by the structure and nuances used in the narrative texture of the verses and also being inspired by his own memory, Matar is in direct interaction and communication with the holy Quran. Contemplating on Aififi Matar's divan, we may find a wide presence of Quranic terms in his poetry that in most cases depicts Quranic rhetoric and concepts used in it. The current paper is an attempt to analyze Quranic rhetoric in Muhammad Afifi Matar' poetry from a semantic deviation point of view (metaphor, irony, simile, metonymy,). On this basis, the poet's application of beauties of Quranic rhetoric is evaluated in syntagmatic and paradigmatic axis.