Appearance of Parnassism in Imru' al-Qais’s Mu'allaqa

زبان و ادبیات عربی

Article 5, Volume 3, Issue 4, August 2011   

Document Type: research article

DOI: 10.22067/jall.v3i4.9315

Authors

Dr.Abbas Dr Arab^* ; Kolsum Seddiqi

Abstract

This question may be raised in the mind of reader of this article that what motivation causes treating the feature of parnassism , in the ode of pre-Islamic Arab poet living hundreds of years before the rise of this school.
Did Imru' al-Qais’ belong to the time beyond his contemporary period or the problem is something else? In fact although parnassism is a new name for a special literary school in nineteenth century, but many of it’s features and principles are seen in Arabic poems and particularly in pre-Islamic poems and many of it’s features have been a part of the nature of such insolent poets like Imru' al-Qais’ a poet that like parnassians believes that neither the poem is demonstrative of sublime moral values nor the poet has to observes the social manners and consider the public satisfaction but the important thing in poem is it’s beauty, harmony and it’s being a poem.
The authors of this article aim to look for the reality and depth of a poem that embodies an art for the sake of art view and speak about a poet that although some of the critics doubt in his being and his poems but as some of the critics believe he has been the pioneer of pre-Islamic poets.

Key words: poetry, ethics, Parnassism, Imru' al-Qais, clarity.