The Influence of Western Literary Movements on the Modern Arabic Poetry: A Descriptive Study

This paper discusses and demonstrates how the Western literary movements, especially romanticism, symbolism, and surrealism, have strongly influenced modern Arabic poetry. For this reason, the paper focuses on three major modern Arab poets who represent such influence: Gibran Khalil, Saeed Akl, and Ounsi El-Hajj. The paper used a descriptive method to describe the literary characteristics of these three writers and concluded that western poetry has strong effects on the modern Arabic poetry.