The aesthetics of nature in the poetry of Saadi Youssef

Abstract

Nature in Saadi Youssef's poetry is a means of expression, through which he expresses his thoughts, feelings and emotions, so it was the source of his inspiration. So he symbolized the desert, palm trees, orchards, birds and all kinds of nature, to reach his goal and deliver to the recipient what is inside him. His poetry pieces were full of intellectual flashes and suggestive symbols, so he was able by metaphorical transmission to liken the sensual to the moral and mix reality and imagination to present a clear picture to the reader.

Because nature poetry at the advent of Islam was rather weak, because the poet's view of the environment and the universe had changed, Islam gave an explanation for everything in nature so that man no longer faced the universe and what is in it with his innate feeling. The village became for Saadi Youssef the beginning and the first source of describing nature in his poetry. The poet employed nature in an artistic way that helped to find its symbols, dimensions and connotations with poetic power and influence, as the poem suggests a "symbolic connotation." Critics considered the desert a type of silent nature that poets were interested in from the pre-Islamic era to the modern era. Saadi Youssef was able to blend reality and imagination to present a new image to the recipient, because imagination derives its primary elements from life itself, then reassembles them in a new and different way.