Abstract

This research analyzes the descriptive poetry in the collection of "Al-Luzumiyat" by Abu Al-Ala Al-Ma'arri. It also examines Al-Ma'arri's techniques of shaping his descriptive imagery. The study also seeks to analyze the diverse content in the descriptions and their symbolic significance, reflecting Al-Ma'arri's perception of sensory and moral perceptions. Still the study tries prove that Al-Ma'arri approach in description differs from that of other poets, as he adapted description to his self-vision and his gloomy view of the universe and existence. The study includes four sections, the first deals with descriptive topics, and the second section is concerned with the study of the mechanisms of description, and their diversity between diagnosis, graphic images and sensory lexicon, while the third section deals with the role of linguistic and stylistic structures in the formation of the descriptive image where Al-Ma'arri employed the actual sentences, the case and the adjective, exaggeration, minimization, submission and delay, and was able with his rich imagination to form his descriptive images brilliantly. The fourth section focuses on revealing the role of music in shaping the image of the described. The study proved that Al-Ma'arri's descriptive poetry differs from the description of other poets, where Al-Ma'arri's description is adapted to his self-vision, and his gloomy view of the universe and existence.

Keywords

Al-Ma'arri, Al-Luzumiyat, descriptive poetry, linguistic and stylistic structures.

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