Poetry is a suggestive means that expresses a person’s life and psychological states, reveals the hidden contents of the soul and its projections, and to communicate with others, it relies on creative discourse that achieves semantic goals and objectives. In this regard, poets worked to employ a number of effective artistic tools to convey their thoughts and feelings to the recipient, and to achieve the communication process. Poetic discourse is a communicative process that aims to influence the addressee’s mentality and convictions in a way that achieves goals and objectives. To achieve this ultimate goal, the creative poet tries as much as possible to supplement his text with semantic tools and emotional energies to raise the level of his poetic discourse, taking it from directness and superficiality to semantic richness and intentional communication with others. This study deals with revealing the dimensions of pragmatics in poetic discourse, which are (dialogical imperative, speech acts, indicatives, and arguments) based on the descriptive-analytical approach. We began the study by defining pragmatics linguistically and terminologically, then addressing the topic of pragmatics among Arabs and Westerners, the emergence and development of pragmatic thought, the cognitive reference for pragmatic thought, and the most important pragmatic topics.
In completing this research, the researcher relied on a plan consisting of two parts: The first chapter contains theoretical topics, and the second chapter discusses the mechanisms of textual analysis in Walid Saif’s poetry according to the theory of pragmatics. The study reached important results, which are: The most important characteristic of pragmatic study is the focus on language and its users. In this field, context plays a prominent role in influencing the recipient in the communicative process. The Palestinian poet Walid Saif, in his poems that are characterized by creative discourse, seeks to influence the addresse