49The Semantic Defamiliarization in Contemporary Islamic Poetry (Case Study: Personification in Haroun Hashem Rasheed's Poetry)

The technique of defamiliarization is one of the stylistic features in literature. For the first time, this technique was presented by one of the great formalists who lived in Russia, named "Viktor Shklovsky". He thought that the output of literature is defamiliarization because it keeps the mind out of falling into the habit and creates literary taste and pleasure by making the language poetic. Haroun Hashem Rasheed, an Islamist Palestinian contemporary poet has used defamiliarization in his poems widely especially semantic defamiliarization. Keeping in mind the importance of this feature in stylistics, it seems necessary to study it in Haroun Hashem's poetry in order to recognize his poetic method in a better way. Therefore, Haroun Hashem's poetry was studied in the present research with the descriptive-analytic method in order to clarify the role of aesthetic technique in the structure of his poetic style. Results of this study indicate that the poet was interested in employing the semantic defamiliarization based on personification and it is regarded as the most important feature in his poetry. The images that the poet presented based on personification, reveal his sincere feelings toward Palestine and his close ties to it and its people's tragedy, in a manner that all things were conformed with him even natural phenomena and abstract matters.