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
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.36473/ujhss.v62i1.1969Keywords:
Conscience, love, sadness, text thresholdsAbstract
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
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