Tybes of Tense and its Connotations in Barja's Poem (My Time is not You(

Abstract

This study examines the peculiarity of tense in the poem of Ali Ahmed Baraja: (My time is not you), in terms of the relationship of time(diachronic) to time(synchronic) in its linguistic dimension, and in the manifestations of tense in the three types: past, present and future. It also investigates the role of tense in building the artistry of the text in relationto the poem's lexicon, its structure, and interstitial time stations,  separate from the poem and connected to its script. The hegemony was for the tense, the present time in particular, in terms of a dichotomy between time/tense and place, the weakness of human action that was marked by (stagnation), producing drought and desertification and the relationship between heaven and earth, as well as emptiness gluttony, frowning, darkness, bankruptcy, lying, employment and dependency, and the ignition of wars in the relationship between tense and action. Four intertextual times were connected in texts from the Holy Qur’an and the ancient Arab heritage. Therefore, the poem was a sign of awareness of the modern and contemporary Yemeni time.