Depicting the Euphrates River to denote generosity in the Abbasid poetry

Authors

  • Ahmed Mahmoud Abdel Hamid Al-Bayati Al-Qaim College of Education / University of Anbar

Keywords:

Poetic image, description of generosity, poetry, Abbasid literature, Euphrates River

Abstract

The Arabs lived on the banks of the Euphrates River, and they knew it as generous and generous, until it became known to them for its generosity, and this appeared in their poetry since the pre-Islamic era. Abbasid poetry, and a brief study was initiated firstFor the same signification in Arabic poetry until the end of the Umayyad era, if the common employment of the Euphrates to denote generosity was formulated in the composite poetic image, then the single poetic image began to appear and spread at the expense of the composite image, so that the supremacy of the single image in the poetry of the Abbasid era varied, and the methods of depicting the Euphrates varied to denote the generosity ofOne era to another, from one poet to another, and from one poem to another, and this is apparent in all eras of Arabic literature, and the use of eloquent methods prevailed in visualizing the Euphrates indicative of generosity, and most of them are the method of analogy, especially the implicit analogy method, then followed by the overall analogy method, and this is more accurate In art and more beautiful, and the movement has a great role in the image of the Euphrates for indicationOn generosity, and this is by the methods of metaphor, whether by diagnosis or embodiment, and it may be by others, such as the declarative image, as the poets used the methods of the beautiful, and his methods began to multiply in improving the depiction of the Euphrates as we went into the Abbasid era, as well as the method of exaggeration was employed and it began to spread in the poetry of the Abbasid era and increased steadily This was evident inDepicting the Euphrates River to indicate generosity, and the most poets depicting the Euphrates River denoting generosity is Al-Farazdaq, then Al-Akhtal Al-Taghlibi in the Umayyad era, and in the Abbasid era, a number of poets emerged, the most important of which was Al-Buhtri, then Mahyar Al-Daylami, then Ibn Al-Roumi.

 

Published

2023-08-17