Thus, all poetry that was written in the classical style is called 'classical' or 'traditional poetry' since it follows the traditional style and structure. Classical poetry was written before the Arabic renaissance ( al-Nahḍah). Researchers and critics of Arabic poetry usually classify it in two categories: classical and modern poetry. He failed to produce a coherent, integrated theory which satisfies the requirements of generality, adequacy, and simplicity instead, he merely listed and categorized the primary data, thus producing a meticulously detailed but incredibly complex formulation which very few indeed are able to master and utilize. D.) was the first Arab scholar to subject the prosody of Arabic poetry to a detailed phonological study. Also, in rhymed poetry, every bayt has to end with the same rhyme ( qāfiyah) throughout the poem.Īl-Kʰalīl b. Sometimes adding or removing a consonant or a vowel can shift the bayt from one meter to another. The measuring procedure of a poem is very rigorous. The measuring unit of seas is known as ' taf‘īlah', and every sea contains a certain number of taf'ilas which the poet has to observe in every verse ( bayt) of the poem. The meters of the rhythmical poetry are known in Arabic as 'seas' ( buḥūr).
Al-Akhfash, a student of al-Farahidi, later added one more meter to make them sixteen. The rhymed poetry falls within fifteen different meters collected and explained by al-Farahidi in The Science of ‘Arud. Present knowledge of poetry in Arabic dates from the 6th century, but oral poetry is believed to predate that.Īrabic poetry is categorized into two main types, rhymed or measured, and prose, with the former greatly preceding the latter. To my mother and other poems /.Īrabic poetry (Arabic: الشعر العربي ash-shi‘ru al-‘Arabīyyu) is the earliest form of Arabic literature.
Anthology of Arabic literature, culture, and thought from pre-Islamic times to the present /. You may read Nizar Qabbani: Journal of An Indifferent.
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