چکیده:
This paper analyzes James Elroy Flecker’s “War Song of the Saracens”, a
poem with an ostensible wealth of historical allusions, as its historical contents
happen to communicate additional material to what is visibly present in the
text. The more we dig into the significance of the historical contents, the
further we realize that Flecker utilizes the said allusions to help him create his
patterns of lexical clusters ,as well as verbal, linguistic, and communication
choices that remain largely and distinctively his trademark .The selected poem
for this analysis should mean much to the scholars from our part of the world,
because it represents an example of how a well-informed, scholarly poet could
handle the sophisticated turns of events in an unbiased manner. It also shows
how Flecker was able to deal deftly and skillfully with issues that were, and
continue to be, culture-specific. The outcome is an aesthetically distinguished
poem that has its particular coding system in conducting its discourse. The
allusions are part of the coded process. The poet’s speaking voice,
reincarnating the spirit of bygone heroes, as will be revealed in the analysis,
uses the language of history to have his dialogue with the recipients. The
eventful and central utterance of the poem, found in line Nine” and by God we
will go there again”, is proven to be the gist of the entire communication
delivered via the thinly disguised connotations, aided by the sincerity of the
tone.