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    There are two main categories of Arabic poetry: classical poetry and modern poetry. Classical poetry followed traditional styles and structures, while modern poetry deviated from classical forms in content, style, structure, rhyme, and topics. Some important themes in Arabic poetry include praise, insult, elegy, description, love, wine, hunting, asceticism, boasting, and war. Major movements since 1875 include neo-classicism, romanticism, and realism. Famous poetic genres are romantic poetry, as seen in Layla and Majnun, and satirical poetry known as hija.

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    There are two main categories of Arabic poetry: classical poetry and modern poetry. Classical poetry followed traditional styles and structures, while modern poetry deviated from classical forms in content, style, structure, rhyme, and topics. Some important themes in Arabic poetry include praise, insult, elegy, description, love, wine, hunting, asceticism, boasting, and war. Major movements since 1875 include neo-classicism, romanticism, and realism. Famous poetic genres are romantic poetry, as seen in Layla and Majnun, and satirical poetry known as hija.

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    There are two main categories of Arabic poetry: classical poetry and modern poetry. Classical poetry followed traditional styles and structures, while modern poetry deviated from classical forms in content, style, structure, rhyme, and topics. Some important themes in Arabic poetry include praise, insult, elegy, description, love, wine, hunting, asceticism, boasting, and war. Major movements since 1875 include neo-classicism, romanticism, and realism. Famous poetic genres are romantic poetry, as seen in Layla and Majnun, and satirical poetry known as hija.

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    Arabia

    nPoetry
    Arabic poetry -is the earliest form
    of Arabic Literature. Present knowledge of poetry in
    Arabic dates from the 6th century.

    Arabic poetry is categorized into two main types,


    rhymed or measured, and prose
    2 categories:
    • Classical poetry- was written before the
    Arabic renaissance Thus, all poetry that was
    written in the classical style is called
    "classical" or "traditional poetry" since
    it follows the traditional style and structure. It
    is also known as "horizontal poetry" in
    reference to its horizontal parallel structure.
    • Modern poetry-on the
    other hand, deviated from classical
    poetry in its content, style, structure,
    rhyme and topics.
    Al-Mutanabbi was
    an Arab Iraqi poet. He is
    considered as one of the
    greatest poets in the
    Arabic language. Much of
    his poetry revolves
    around praising the
    kings he visited during
    his lifetime.
    His Works
    Only
    by Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi

    A lazy noon
    stirs me from your memory to this glass of tea
    and a wondering embrace

    In a mood busy with inquisitiveness


    I smell the lees of the scent
    that lingers
    behind you

    I sense your shade in the shadows


    in the dregs of all that gossip -
    Oh you sinner!

    Like a rumoured prophet's advent


    you slide from the ripe fruit of sleep
    afire with ideas, your flashing wit
    Three principal “purposes” for the public
    performance of poetry:
    • panegyric -the praise of the tribe and its elders,
    a genre of poetry that was to become the primary
    mode of poetic expression during the Islamic
    period
    • praise’s opposite—lampoon -whereby the
    poet would be expected to take verbal aim at the
    community’s enemies and impugn their honour
    (most often at the expense of women); and
    • praise of the dead, or elegy
    Poetic themes
    • Madih, a eulogy or panegyric
    • Hija, a lampoon or insult poem
    • Ritha, an elegy
    • Wasf, a descriptive poem
    • Ghazal, a love poem, sometimes expressing love of
    home
    • Khamriyyah, wine poetry
    • Tardiyyah, hunt poetry
    • Zuhdiyyah, homiletic poetry
    • Fakhr, boasting
    • Hamasa, war poetry
    3 Important themes of
    Arabic Poetry since 1875
    • Neo-classicism ‫الكالسيكية الجديدة‬
    (late 19th century until 1920s)-
    Organic unity insisted on –wehdat al-bait-
    unity of the line- the concept that each line
    had to be grammatically and semantically
    complete
    • Romanticism (approx post World
    War I) ‫ الشعر الرومانسية‬-Still regard organic
    unity as important element in later stages of
    neoclassicism/ early romanticist poetry.

    • Realism ‫( الواقعية‬post World War II)-


    increasingly irrelevant to the Arab world which
    was waking up to the harsh political and social
    realities.
    Poetic Genres
    Romantic poetry
    A famous example of Arabic poetry on
    romance is Layla and Majnun, dating back to
    the Umayyad era in the 7th century.

    Satirical poetry
    The genre of Arabic satirical poetry was
    known as hija.
    TH A N K
    Y O U

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