A Speculative Poetics of Tammuz: Myth, Sentiment, and Modernism in Twentieth Century Arabic Poetry

Labyrinth ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 156
Author(s):  
Hamad Al-Rayes
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
European History ◽  
Modern Poetry ◽  
Free Verse ◽  
Arabic Poetry ◽  
Modern Arabic

In this paper, I attempt to read the poetic principle behind the Tammuzi movement of modern Arabic poetry through the lens of speculative poetics. While speculative-poetic accounts of modern poetry, such as those provided by Allen Grossman, blazed new paths connecting poetry to personhood in modernity, their application to the development of modern poetry outside of Europe remains limited by their self-avowed focus on European history. This paper will outline a critical corrective to speculative poetics which, I argue, can be of value in extending its domain of application to Arabic projects of poetic modernity, particularly the two tendencies of "free verse" and "commitment" poetry that emerged out of the Tammuzi movement. 

scholarly journals A Speculative Poetics of Tammuz: Myth, Sentiment, and Modernism in Twentieth Century Arabic Poetry

Labyrinth ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 156-176
Author(s):  
Hamad Al-Rayes
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
European History ◽  
Modern Poetry ◽  
Free Verse ◽  
Arabic Poetry ◽  
Modern Arabic

In this paper, I attempt to read the poetic principle behind the Tammuzi movement of modern Arabic poetry through the lens of speculative poetics. While speculative-poetic accounts of modern poetry, such as those provided by Allen Grossman, blazed new paths connecting poetry to personhood in modernity, their application to the development of modern poetry outside of Europe remains limited by their self-avowed focus on European history. This paper will outline a critical corrective to speculative poetics which, I argue, can be of value in extending its domain of application to Arabic projects of poetic modernity, particularly the two tendencies of "free verse" and "commitment" poetry that emerged out of the Tammuzi movement.

Free verse (al-shi'r al-ḥurr) in modern Arabic literature: Abū Shādī and his school, 1926–46

1968 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-51
Author(s):  
S. Moreh
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Arabic Literature ◽  
Free Verse ◽  
Western Literature ◽  
Arabic Poetry ◽  
History Of ◽  
Modern Arabic ◽  
Official Recognition

The beginning of the twentieth century marked a new and revolutionary stage in the history of Arabic poetry. Through the increasing influence of Western literature, some new genres which show only preliminary signs of emergence in the nineteenth century found official recognition, as in the case of the strophic verse, or experimenting with them was resumed, as in the case of the blank verse (shi'r mursal), which was first practisd by Rizq Allāh Ḥassūn in 1869 and which was revived in 1905, probably unconsciously, by Jamīl Ṣidqī al-Zahāwī (1863–1936), under the name of shi'r mursal.

scholarly journals The Linguistic Features of Intertextuality in Jordan's Free Verse Poetry: Ayman Al-Otoum as a Case Study

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Nisreen Al-Khawaldeh ◽  
Bassil Mashaqba ◽  
Anas Huneety ◽  
Abu Muhareb Amer
Keyword(s):  
Positive Impact ◽  
Modern Poetry ◽  
Free Verse ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
Translation Practice ◽  
The World ◽  
Modern Arabic ◽  
Free Verse Poetry

Intertextuality appears to be of crucial significance to better comprehend texts (Ahmadian and Yazdani, 2013).This research addresses intertextuality as an important technique manifested in modern Arabic poetry trying to investigate its conception, identify a sample of these salient embedded texts, and analyze them and their positive impact on enriching the text and illuminating some related issues such as ideology and perception of the world of experience in the Jordanian modern poetry, with special attention devoted to the recent poetry of Ayman Al-Otoum. Models representing this phenomenon in his poetry has been collected and compared with much assertion on the importance of this technique in enriching both levels: the idea and rhyme. The outcomes would be of a great importance to raise people’s awareness of the extensive impact of culture, religion, society on language, the tissue of the interrelated texts, enrich understanding of the language and enhance the translation practice and the quality of the translation output.Keywords: Intertextuality, intertextual elements, allusion, Arabic Free Verse Poetry, Ayman Al-Otoum’s poetry

scholarly journals MODERN SAUDI POETRY: MOHAMMAD HASAN AWWAD’S NIGHT AND ME, IN BALANCE

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (5) ◽  
pp. 130-143
Author(s):  
YAHYA SALEH HASAN DAHAMI
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Positive Measure ◽  
Arabic Literature ◽  
Free Verse ◽  
Kingdom Of Saudi Arabia ◽  
Central Section ◽  
Arabic Poetry ◽  
Literary Movement ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
Modern Arabic

Arabic poetry is the heart of all types of literature in all Arabic realms. Consistent with this generalization, it can be right that the development of poetry in the modern age, among Arabs, is a positive measure. At that argument, the same would be focused on modern Saudi literature since it is typically considered a central, authoritative, and undivided part of Arabic poetry. In this paper, the researcher has attempted to illustrate some literary aspects of modern Arabic poetry in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia as an instance of the greatness of Arabic poetry with a particular reference to a contemporary Saudi poet. The study starts with an introduction to the condition of poetry in Arabia. In the first section of the study, the researcher points up the importance of Arabic poetry as an Arabic literature genre. The second section deals with poetry and literary movement in Saudi Arabia as the central section of the investigation. After that, the task moves ahead to deal with a model of the modern Arabic poetry in the kingdom, Mohammad Hasan Awwad, a modernized rebellious poet with stark poetry, then the researcher, analytically and critically, sheds light on some selected verses of one of the poems of Awwad, Night and Me. The study finishes with a discussion and a brief conclusion. Keywords: Arabic literature, Arabic poetry, free verse, greatness, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, modernism.

Badr Shâkir Al-Sayyâb and the Free Verse Movement

1970 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 248-258 ◽  
Author(s):  
Issa J. Boullata
Keyword(s):  
General Condition ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Free Verse ◽  
World War ◽  
Arabic Poetry ◽  
Modern Arabic ◽  
Second World

To measure the achievement of Badr Shâkir al-Sayyâb and ascertain his place in modern Arabic poetry, the general condition of Arabic poetry up to the Second World War must be taken into consideration.

scholarly journals Early Twentieth-Century Terms for New Verse Forms (‘free verse’ and others) in Japanese and Arabic

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-106
Author(s):  
Scott Mehl
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Evolutionary Theory ◽  
Literary History ◽  
Modern Poetry ◽  
Label Free ◽  
Free Verse ◽  
Annotated List ◽  
New Form ◽  
Verse Form ◽  
Verse Forms

In the first half of the twentieth century, when Japanese and Arabic poets began writing free-verse poetry, many terms were proposed as labels for the new form. In addition to the calques on “free verse,” neologisms were created to name the new poetry. What is striking is that, in these two quite different literary spheres, a number of the proposed neologisms were the same: for example, in both Japanese and Arabic the terms prose poetry, modern poetry, and colloquial poetry were proposed (among others) as alternatives to the label free poetry. This essay provides an annotated list of the neologisms in Japanese and Arabic, with a list of English terms for comparison; and by referring to the contemporary Japanese and Arabic criticism on the topic of poetic innovation, this essay attempts to explain the similarity between the Japanese and Arabic neologisms. In short, the Japanese and Arabophone arguments in favour of adapting the free-verse form were based on similar premises regarding modernity, freedom, and a vision of literary history that was rooted in an evolutionary theory of genre development.

scholarly journals Arab Spring Revolutions throughout Modern Arabic Poetry

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Khaled Igbaria
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Arab Spring ◽  
Arab Countries ◽  
Armed Conflicts ◽  
Free Verse ◽  
Arabic Poetry ◽  
The Core ◽  
Historical Role ◽  
The Arab Spring ◽  
Modern Arabic

One of the core dominant events, in the Middle East in 21th century, was Arab Spring revolutions in 2010-2011. These revolutions aimed to achieve democracy and get rid of the dictator regimes in the Arab countries. No doubt that Arab Spring had political social and economic reasonable and significant impacts. This paper will examine various reflections on the Arab revolutions of the Arab Spring (2010-2011) through modern Arab poetry, focusing on four selected poems as cases of study. In addition to the aimed historical reading, this paper attempts to analyse the selected poems focusing literary and poetic methods, as well as language and diction, comparing between them. For diversity, while all the selected poems are modern Arabic poetry, one of the selected poems is the neo-classic Arabic poetry of Ibrāhīm Obaydī, and the three others are free verse poetry from Ahmed Matar, Musʿab al-Mūrādī, and Ahmad Msāʿdih. Methodologically, this study is analytic, comparative and inductive, relying relevant poems of the selected four poets. This paper suggests not only that the Arab Spring played a significant historical role in the Middle East, leading to intensive civil and non-civil armed conflicts, but also, Modern Arab poetry contributes to historical documenting immortalizing the Arab Spring revolutions including their aims and motivations, as well as their social political and cultural impacts.

Al-Bayati, Abdul-Wahab (1926–99)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annie Webster
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Arab World ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Major Influence ◽  
Free Verse ◽  
Poetic Form ◽  
Revolutionary Change ◽  
Arabic Poetry ◽  
Political Views ◽  
Formal Constraints

Iraqi poet Abdul-Wahab al-Bayati was one of the foremost pioneers of Arabic poetry during the twentieth century. His poetry was revolutionary in poetic form and political content. A key figure in the Iraqi Free Verse Movement, alongside Nazik Al-Malaika (1923–2007) and Badr Shakri Al-Sayyab (1925–1926), Al-Bayati defied the formal constraints of traditional Arabic poetry by experimenting with innovative rhyme schemes and metric patterns. His poems articulate a radical leftist commitment to revolutionary change across the Arab World. Such political views forced Al-Bayati to leave Iraq in 1955 and live more than half his life in exile, moving between various Arab and European countries. Over the rest of his life he maintained a difficult relationship with his homeland, an experience that had a major influence on his writing. Al-Bayati published more than twenty collections of poetry and a three-act play. He died of natural causes in Damascus.

Abdel Sabour, Salah (1931–1981)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sally Hammouda
Keyword(s):  
Regular Education ◽  
Arabic Language ◽  
Common Language ◽  
English Poetry ◽  
Free Verse ◽  
Arabic Poetry ◽  
Rigid Structure ◽  
Classical Poetry ◽  
Modern Arabic ◽  
Classical Arabic

Salah Abdel Sabour (also Abd-al Sabur) is an Egyptian writer, poet, and playwright. He is considered a pioneer of modern Arabic poetry and a prominent figure in Arabic modernism and the Arabic free verse movement. Born in a small town in the Eastern Delta of Egypt in 1931, Abdel Sabour showed an interest in literature at a young age. He began writing verse at the tender age of thirteen. His talent reached full maturity by the 1950’s. Though his regular education enabled him to develop an appreciation for the long tradition of classical Arabic poetry, his modern sensibility was sharpened through readings in European poetry, especially that of symbolists Rilke and Baudelaire, and the English poetry of Donne, Yeats, Keats and T.S. Eliot. He was also influenced by prominent Arab Sufis such as Al-Mutanabbi, and Persian mystic poet and Sufi writer Mansur Al-Hallaj. He graduated from the Department of Arabic Language, at the Faculty of Arts, Cairo University, in 1951. In 1957 his first collection of poetry Al-Nass Fi Biladi [People of my Country] using free verse was published, catapulting the poet into fame. It caught both readers’ and critics’ attention alike for its use of unique imagery and everyday common language. It broke away from the constricting rigid structure of Arabic classical poetry.

Studying Modern Arabic Literature

2015 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Public Intellectual ◽  
Arabic Literature ◽  
Global Culture ◽  
The West ◽  
Teaching And Research ◽  
The Face ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Modern Arabic

This book is devoted to the life and academic legacy of Mustafa Badawi who transformed the study of modern Arabic literature in the second half of the twentieth century. Prior to the 1960s the study of Arabic literature, both classical and modern, had barely been emancipated from the academic approaches of orientalism. The appointment of Badawi as Oxford University's first lecturer in modern Arabic literature changed the face of this subject as Badawi showed, through his teaching and research, that Arabic literature was making vibrant contributions to global culture and thought. Part biography, part collection of critical essays, this book celebrates Badawi's immense contribution to the field and explores his role as a public intellectual in the Arab world and the west.

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