Melancholy in Modern Arabic Poetry

This paper aims at analyzing and studying the phenomenon of melancholy (sadness) in modern Arabic poetry since it is a feature that, unlike in ancient Arabic poetry, we can come across in most modern poetic writings. The paper distinguishes between the sadness of an ordinary man and that of a creative writer who shows a special sensitivity and can turn his sadness into something creative and can express it in his writings. In this study, the researcher refers to the most eminent critical points of view that dealt with the phenomenon of melancholy in modern Arabic poetry. For example, Dr. Ezzuddeen Ismail’s philosophy and opinion in this respect are referred to especially that he links and compares between Arab poets and their European counterparts concerning the subject of expressing sadness in their poetry. Likewise, Dr. Ismail refers to the affinity between sadness in Arabic poetry and some prose writings that became known in the Arab culture due to the connection with the Western culture. The paper discusses these points of view and concludes, through analysis of poetic examples, that there are two reasons for expressing sadness in poetry: First, personal reasons that the poet has due to an illness, a poverty, or expatriation. Second, national reasons that have to do with the status and condition of the Arab Nation in modern times especially the political, social, and economic trouble and crises.

Pictures Patterns & Psychological Denotations In the Modern Poetry in Yemen

This paper discusses the poetic patterns and psychological which are conveyed by imagery in modern Poetry Divan in Yemen, and which Poets used to direct their meaning. Images in poets divans varied between simile, sensational images and metaphorical prosopopoeia, embodiment, "symbolism" the images that displays poet mentality. The psychological functions achieved by rhetorical uses create a bridge of understanding with audience. They show a gap in the relation between the images and psychological denotations, and they carry a plenty of contemporary significance in their symbols, these pictures will remain in the interior constructing context which came from undulation of the psychological movement whether these images were sensational, mental or symbolic. So employing the psychological rhetoric and is denotation by the poets is confined to articulation only, but exceeds to the inspirations & psychological undulation which addresses the conscience, therefore the poets did not use certain rhetoric pattern or type of images move a the others, but they widened the use of rhetoric so as to able to deal with reality in all its facts and forms, and explain their attitudes and feeling towards this reality.