Mannerism in Arabic Poetry: A Structural Analysis of by Stefan Sperl

By Stefan Sperl

Sperl's research questions even if mannerism and classicism may be utilized to the research of Arabic poetry. whereas mannerism in Arabic literature has characteristically been linked to an over the top use of rhetorical units and illustrated as regards to poetic fragments and extracts, Sperl methods the query via a structuralist exam of poems as a complete. The texts chosen variety from the ninth to the eleventh centuries advert and are drawn from the works of Abu l-Atahiya, Buhturi, Mihyar al-Daylami and Maarri. The poems that are studied intimately in successive chapters express profound stylistic ameliorations in sound, imagery, and composition. within the mild of structuralist research, those ameliorations do certainly seem to agree to a attribute classicist/mannerist continuum additionally saw in different literatures. The structuralist process furthermore results in a broader reevaluation of those phrases within the ultimate bankruptcy.

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4. law kdna IT dam'un yuhassinu law'atT la-tar aktuhu JT arsatayki khalVd Had I but tears still to adorn the agony of my love I should leave them outcast in your twin courtyards; 5. Id takhtubi dam'i ilayya fa-lam yada' JT muqlatayya jawd l-firdqi dumu'd Do not ask for my tears to be betrothed to you for the pain of parting has left none in my eyes. 8. kddat tunahnihu 'abratT 'azamdtuhd lammd rdat hawla l-firdqi fazVd Her resolute strength when she saw the dread of parting to be gruesome, nearly restrained my tears.

The last line of the poem marks the resolution of the theme. The repetition of dtd ('to give, grant') in two different forms (a'tdkahd/tu'tihd, 40) resembles the other verb repetitions. But the relationship expressed here is not mutual but consecutive: God gives the world to the Caliph and the Caliph in turn gives it to his people. The objects of the world reflect one another, rival one another, give to one another, take from one another, but in their mutuality all these relationships remain entities within themselves.

In the last line of the poem, the imagery takes up this motif for the third time: 38. hddhd wa-ayyu mu'dnidin ndhadtahu lam tujri min awddjihi yanbifd So there - what enemy do you defy without causing a spring to gush from his jugular vein? As in line 16, water and blood are brought into relation: a spring gushes forth from the jugular vein of the victim. Thus, the relation between strophe and antistrophe brought about by the imagery resides in the contrast between the impeded flow of tears and the abundant flow of water, milk, and blood, the one depicting the intensity of the lover's sorrow, and the other the greatness of the ruler's power.

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