The duality of the ego and the other in the poetry of Fahd Al-Askar

Abstract

This study aimed to trace the duality of the ego and the other in the literature of the contemporary Kuwaiti poet Fahd Saleh Al-Askar, and used the inductive and analytical method. and how the poet documented these transformations in his poetry.Fahd Al-Askar was open-minded, free from the constraints of society. Rather, he rejected many of his habits and behaviors, and this tendency to liberation and challenge made him confront a group of society that adheres to inherited traditions and sanctifies them and sees deviation from them as immorality, which made the dispute turn into a great conflict and hostility between the two parties. Each of them is a stranger, hated and unacceptable, and a threat to his existence and himself. The importance of Fahd Al-Askari’s poetic experience lies in being evidence of the diversity of intellectual life in Kuwait at that period, and an example of what a poet looking forward to a better reality can be, a reality that does not call to deny the different other or try to abolish it, but rather recognize and

respect it.