A master's thesis at the College of Education for Humanities at the University of Basra, titled "Techniques of Evasion in Contemporary Basra Poetry," was presented by student Helen Taama Nema. The thesis aims to shed light on the mechanisms of this evasion, such as symbolism, masking, metaphor, allegory, pun, and intertextuality. It also aims to reveal the motivations that have driven contemporary Basra poets to employ these techniques. It also highlights their impact on shaping the semantic and aesthetic structure of poetic texts, and examines the methods used to express crucial and existential issues. The study includes an examination of the poetic techniques employed by contemporary poets to evade direct speech and manipulate metaphor, myth, symbolism, and pronouns, contributing to the deconstruction and expansion of discourse. This, in turn, provides the reader with a broad horizon of multiple meanings, making contemporary Basra poetry open to interpretation
