Expressions of Conscience in the Poetry of Yahya Al-Samawi Diwan of a Few, Not Many, Extinguish me with your Fire, A River with Three Banks, A Model

Authors

Firas Khudair Abbas, Wasit University, Faculty of Basic Education, Iraq
Yahya Maarouf, Al-Razi University College of Arts and Humanities, Iran
Ali Ezz El-Din Al-Khatib, Wasit University, Faculty of Basic Education, Iraq
Jahangir Amiri, Al-Razi University College of Arts and Humanities, Iran

Abstract

Sentimentalist poetry is undoubtedly a landmark in the course of early and modern Arab poetry, as poetry and emotion are strongly connected in the very structure of human beings. When poets composing a poem, regardless of intentions or purposes, such poem must echo those heart-touching, internal feelings. Al-Samawi has been one of those sentimentalist poets whose emotions have dominated poetic structure or whose words have dominated their emotions. The poems made, therefore, have proved to be purely emotional and sentimentalist. This paper investigates sentimentalism in Al-Samawi's poems as to language, mainly the lexicographic structure. The paper, therefore, surveys sentimentalist words in the said poems. The paper finds that lexical sentimentalism in Al-Samawi's poems have mainly taken two aspects; sadness

Article Type

Article

First Page

331

Last Page

346

Publication Date

3-15-2023

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Recommended Citation

Abbas, Firas Khudair; Maarouf, Yahya; Al-Khatib, Ali Ezz El-Din; and Amiri, Jahangir (2023) "Expressions of Conscience in the Poetry of Yahya Al-Samawi Diwan of a Few, Not Many, Extinguish me with your Fire, A River with Three Banks, A Model," Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences: Vol. 62: Iss. 1, Article 17.
DOI: 10.36473/ujhss.v62i1.1969
Available at: https://alustath.researchcommons.org/journal/vol62/iss1/17