Woman has received a great importance since the dawn of
history; therefore, she reached in ancient civilizations the status of
sanctity and divinity, she moved from a specific denotation to
another throughout the march of Arabic poetry until she r
eached
the image of the independent woman in the Arabic Renaissance,
and afterwards she turned into a symbol, a dream in contemporary
Arabic poetry.
Various are the images of women in Muhammad Al-Maghout's
poetry, prominent of which are perhaps: woman as a beloved, as
a harlot, a mother, a wife, a daughter and a symbol-dream, thus
proceeding from describing woman sensually to metaphorically,
depending upon several techniques such as the paradox, surprise
and flashback and others.
Behind these there is a personality characterized by suffering
alienation and lack of emotional self-fulfillment, and we find that
woman in his eyes is not a mere beauty, but someone who makes
the four directions one, namely, woman is love, leniency, a warm
haven and liberty.
