This paper attempts at focusing on analyzing the poetic structure of a pre-and-post-
Islamic poet who witnessed and lived in the early Islamic and Umayyad Eras. With regard
to the objective, the paper is intended to shed light on the major features
and master pieces
of literary output, be its prose or verse, which is the human ego, the driving force and
dynamo behind any human creativity.
In this regard, the paper attempts at categorizing the major subjective characteristics
of a famous poet, such as Al-Farazdaq, who represented a unique phenomenon on the
creative, literary, and poetic scene, through the poetic satirical exchanges with Jareer, the
Umayyad poet laureate.
All this is being dealt with through trying to trace the major characteristics of this
ego and the impact it had left on the Arab poetic output.
