The Employment of Conceptual Metaphor to Cast Political Satire: The Irony of Contradiction as a Model in Ahmed Matar's Poetry

Abstract

Ahmed Matar is among the revolutionary Iraqi poets whose poetries have been at the focal point and a topic of research for researchers in recent times. He used some of the literary arts to mold political thought into society, including the irony of contradiction and conceptual metaphor, one of the most important linguistic cognitive data and semantics. As per this theory, most of our imagistic pattern and system of thought is metaphorical based on its specific parameters. Since the irony of contradiction is plundered concepts used in criticism by the ruling power because it is linked to abstract intellectual principles.

This research attempts through the descriptive-analytical curriculum to test the irony of contradiction in Ahmed Matar's poetries in terms of the way the conceptual metaphor is used to assign these concepts through the use of the contradiction as an instrument to shift the meaning. The conclusions of this research attest that the conceptual metaphor has its own worthy contribution in casting the ideas of political satire in Ahmed Matar, i.e. the use of ideas of contradiction such as: the contradiction between the poem's title and content, contradiction the poem's content with the incapacity and irony in its poems.