The Ego and the Other in Contemporary Iraqi Poetic Discourse between problems and contrasts;

Abstract

The relationship between the self and the other is based in agreement and disagreement.
Sometimes, the self agrees with the other; in some other times, it does disagree. As the self
develops consciousness of its stature, it develops also a relationship with the other, so as to enhance
its consciousness of itself. This relationship, especially in contemporary Iraqi poetry, is realized in
relation to the changing cultural scene in a globalized perspective. It can cannot have its past
configurations within the modern and postmodern milieu.
This relationship is of two stands: agreement and disagreement. This results into two types
of literary discourse; the first allows the addressee participate with the poet in structuring an
interrelated meaning cohesive product. The disagreement discourse, however, depends heavily on
the texts and its paradoxical configurations that rely on the language density and the distractions
amongst its components within the literary space of the self and the other.