
Here, we tried to fathom the depth of two forms that the metaphorical imagery of Ben Al-Ahnaf's poetry has taken: personification and animation of abstract and concrete images. The study begins with an explicatory note on imagery in which we pointed out structurally formalistic and metaphorical trends successfully demonstrated in the poet's metaphorical language, which is the essence of the poetic language. This study tackles the metaphorical imagery in the poetry of Al-'Abbas Ben Al-Ahnaf, hoping to highlight the artistic and aesthetic values his poetry teems with. We also highlighted the poet's creative techniques of expression that skillfully combined the abstract with the concrete, realism with imagination, where the artist skillfully blends the concrete with the abstract and creates a new kind of existence that contrasts with the familiar reality. Through a skillful synthesis of these two forms, Ben Al-Ahnaf's poetry crystallizes his poetic language, with all its artistic and aesthetic connotations. It also studies the Ode's relationship with the tradition of the genre and its differences from and similarities to other odes. However, this article analyzes the ode from a structuralist perspective and principles of criticism: parallels and echoes, reflections and repetitions, contrasts, and patterns of language and imagery. This article joins two contradictory ideas: Romantic poetry which glorifies the author's subjectivity and structuralism which beliefs in the death of the author.

Structuralism with its roots in Ferdinand de Saussure’s structural view of language sees cultural phenomena and literary endeavors as structured based on the underlying rules governing the writing of the creative work. This article explores Wordsworth's Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood from a structuralist perspective. Romantic imagination is against any fixation of form and rules and regulations but any creative attempt, however anti-rule it may be, must have some underlying principles governing its structure.
