Socratic Method of persuasion in Elia Abu Madi's poetry

ABSTRACT

The study aims at investigating the power of persuasion and the role of Socratic Method to achieve it in Elia Abu Madi's poetry. This method is composed of methodological procedural steps which direct the addressee and help him to infer knowledge individually. This method has a persuasion idiosyncrasy which was lucid in samples of Elia Abu Madi's poetry regarding turn taking, interaction and harmony between interlocutors. The turn taking and verbal exchange occur at an ideological space where values and thoughts are being produced. All the rhetorical devices used in the text and the mental, emotional and ethical arguments help to convince the addressee and direct his behaviour resulting in the actualisation of artistic and thoughtful ends simultaneously. © 2022 DSR Publishers/The University of Jordan.