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This paper aims to find out Sana'a's imageries in Al-Maqalih's book of Sana’a. It argues that Al-Maqalih has intensely and extensively used Sana’a as a metaphor. The analytical method has been used to analyze the Al-Maqalih's poems.  Interviews with Al-Maqalih was carried out to clarify ambiguity in some of his poems. This study finds that Sana’a is metaphorically used by Al-Maqalih as poet’s beloved, as Ageless (Eternal Beautiful woman) and as a revolutionary and fighter woman, as Eve the wife of Adam (Ghaiman), the mother of poets and poetry, as a nymph, and an older woman.

Keywords

Imagery Poetic Images Verse Style Sana’a City

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Jubran AL-Mamri, M. (2021). Sana’a and Women in Al-Maqalih’s Book of Sana’a Yemen. JL3T (Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Language Teaching), 7(2), 116-133. https://doi.org/10.32505/jl3t.v7i2.3347

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