Ethical Learning and Knowledge Generation through Poetic Language: A Quintillion Engagement with Charlie Hebdo in Charlie Hebdo and other Poems by Ejaz Rahim

Abstract

Study Background: Poet today is supposed to be well-informed and crafty enough to gaze at contemporary issues to enlighten dogma dulled minds. Taking the case of poetry for effective knowledge generation, this study explores the poem “Charlie Hebdo” from Charlie Hebdo and Other Poems, (2022) by Ejaz Rahim, as a specimen of poetic art that can speak through history and social context to create the environment of a shared humanity.

Aim of the Study: The research aims to establish the relevance of classical theory of oratory with the contemporary human sciences both in terms of exceptional gifts of speech and excellences of character possessed by the orator.

Methodology: The nature of this study is qualitative and will be based on close textual analysis of the poem. It is a narrative research and textual references are given to substantiate the argument of this research.

Findings: The poem shall be read with reference to Quintillion Theory of Rhetoric, that defines what it means when “Good man speaks well” for the sake of effective communication. Roman Philosopher, Marcos Fabius Quintilianus, author of Institutio Oratoria expostulated this theory to define the prerequisites a speaker must have before he involves himself in the act of writing.

Conclusion: The study thereby helps to conclude in favor of a comprehensive institutionalized activity that can fully exploit the capacity of English poetry to meet the challenges of the rapidly advancing world and to catalyze the generation of new knowledge, based on aesthetic and ethical potential that Quintillion expects from his orator in his treatise.