The poetry of the title in Diwan Muhammad Abdul Muti Al_Hamshari

Document Type : Academic research papers

Authors

1 Ain Shams University, College of Women for Arts, Science and Education,

2 Ain Shams University

3 Professor of Arabic Language-Department of Literary and Critical Studies Faculty of Women for Arts, Science & Education Ain Shams University

Abstract

Al-Hamshari is an Arabic poet who belongs to the romantic school of poetry. His culture relies on an authentic heritage and a conscious modernity through which he combined the Arabic and English literature together at the same time. He invested incredibly in the symbols and contents of nature based on their inherent symbolism. In other words, that symbolism reflected an integrated emotional state that the poet lived through with all his senses and spirit. The expressive language that he used served as a portrait that combined the beauty of symbolic composition in a dreamy romantic style and symbolic words that departed from the rigid linguistic framework to the psychological framework of multiple connotations.
The use of titles in Al-Hamshari’s Diwan [collection of poems] was infallible. The poet utilized titles as a window independent of the text, in which he voiced his poetry with certain words and intense connotations. Embedded in his titles were manifestations of ecart of both forms: semantic and synthetic. In his use of titles, Al-Hamshari employed each function accurately, so his diwan included various titles, which he employed in meaningful, seductive, descriptive and suggestive styles depending on each respective poem. Moreover, Al-Hamshari used to write forewords at the beginning or end of his poems, though that was remarkably predominant at the beginnings. The title creation in his poetry formed an integrated system that should be examined thoroughly.

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