a study on mask application in some salah abdel sabour's poetries

the technique of applying mask is one of the most important techniques in arabic contemporary poetry in which the ancient characters would be recalled by mentioned technique in order to express the desired concepts. this literary technique plays an important role in egyptian modernism contemporary poetry. thus the present research intends to survey the lexical and expressional meaning of mask as well as applying the different types of this technique so it evaluates three works of this poet. the study shows that the poet have applied the mask in various ways for instance for mohammad the messenger, folkloric character of abu al khaseeb and so on. it could be resulted that his poetry enjoys a universal approach from the arabic one and gave the chance of being frequent among individual and massive issues to the poet.