Still life in the poetry of Amr ibn Shas al-Asadi

Abstract

The research seeks to study the quiet nature vocabulary in the poetry of Amr Ibn Shaas Al-Asdi with their role in formation the architecture of the poetic rhyme. Beside that, this study highlights the semantic or suggestive role of those vocabulary which they play according to the multi-purpose poetic contexts in which they are contained. Furthermore, it studies poetry's reflection on the personality and psyche of the poet through embodying his emotions, feelings, and thoughts. Consequently, new visions would be revealed whether to the poet or to the reader, that would not have been revealed if the poet was just content to convey them as they are in reality. Therefore, the researcher used in explaining that the descriptive approach with its analytical procedures.

Last but not least, the research concluded with the statement of the poet’s interest and his close connection with the natural environment in which he lived, and where he derived his poetic lexicon. This is why the quiet natural vocabulary occupying a structural role in the poetic rhyme. Accordingly, the vocabulary had highly effective in which could make the text reaching to its summit in potential expression. Moreover, it can be found that the poet made equivalent relationship between that natural vocabulary and what he wanted to reveal for his reader by connotations multiplicity of his vocabulary according to the context in which they were mentioned. The poet has portrayed them through artistic figures describing everything that whether his eyes were on through his life or he felt in. For that, the reader's experience about poet's nature and his surrounded environment has increased, as well as the reader's sensation for the charm of description and the magnificence of the described thing, has also evokd.