The significance of climatic beginnings in the collection "Flowers and Myths" by Badr Shakir al-Sayyab

زبان و ادبیات عربی

Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available Online from 19 August 2025   

Document Type: research article

DOI: 10.22067/jall.2025.88378.1428

Authors

abdulaziz hamadi^{* 1}; Naser Zare²; Rasoul Balavi³

¹Department of Arabic Language and Literature - Payam Noor University

²Assistant Professor, department of Arabic language and literature, Persian Gulf University, Bushehr - Iran

³Professor of Arabic Language and Literature, shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran

Abstract

Poetic-beginning is a starting point for entering the text. It is one of the most important elements of poem and also the cornerstone for forming the structure of poem. From the beginning of the literary era, preludes were important to Arab poets in the ignorant period. Their poetry's preludes were based on standing on ruins and lyrics. Also, preludes and lyrics became known in the Abbasid era. So the beginnings of the contemporary period have changed according to the poets' ideas in various ways, the beginning of the four seasons of the year in contemporary Arabic poetry is therefore an obvious phenomenon. Badr Shākir al-Sayyāb is a poet who is influenced by the nature of his surroundings. He was inspired by palm trees, rivers, springs, plains and gardens and the four seasons and he expresses them indefinitely in his poetry. The poet has a season that begins with his spirit in keeping with his spirit. The present study aims to see that the poet began each of his stories with a chapter of the seasons or with an element of its elements.
This study is based on descriptive-analytical method and through this research we will study the poetic-beginning in al-Sayyāb's poems in the collection of Poems “Flowers and Myths”, and what the poet intended to create a poetic-beginning in his poems and finally what is related to the poet's moods. One of the most important results in this study is that the most of the motifs of the "Flowers and Myths" begin with direct or indirect seasonal preludes and are fully contextualized with contextual implications. It is found that the seasons are appropriate to both natural and spiritual implications.

Keywords

Poetic-beginning; Season; Badr Shākir al-Sayyāb; Flowers and Myths

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