Poetry from the perspective of a poem A review of Adonis' poem: "A Tree of Day and Night"

• 발행기관: 한국이슬람학회
• 저자명: Abdulkareem Nasser Qahtan
• 간행물 정보: 『한국이슬람학회논총』제24권 2호, 389~415쪽, 전체 27쪽
• 주제분류: 인문학 > 종교학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2014.06.30

영문 초록

The paper contents an introduction which states the justifications of selecting this poem. One of the most prominent justifications is the concern of the poem for its discourse as much as it's concern for itself as an aesthetic text manifested the faculty of the pioneer of modernization in Arabic poetry (Adonis) and his aesthetic experience, though the concern of the poem for its discourse has been noticed in the history of Arabic poetry in different ways of different poets and historical periods. In his analysis of the semantic, syntactic, phonetic and visual aspects of the poem, the researcher shows how the implicit and explicit components work in their differentiation and integration within the framework of the text which is based on narrative, as an event in a concordancing dynamically with time, and also on a poetic image, in a remarkable structure of language mixed of Sufi scholasticism, myth and history. In the Conclusion, the researcher shows that the poem confirms Adonis' understanding of the poetry discourse either in its great importance compared with the human's production of civilization, as poetry -according to him- is the first to exist, and the most comprehensive since its concern with revealing the spiritual truth that guides facts of sciences and philosophies, or in its visionary creativity revealed by means of heart and soul, independently of the will and the power of reason. This poem also confirms its modernist style, as followed by Adonis, with a tendency for modernization and surpassing, shifting language meanings to symbols full of spiritual meanings, using the phonic, calligraphic, syntactic and semantic components of Arabic language, and the human culture including its symbols and myths components, within a vision that combines the subjective with the objective as much as combining the possible with the impossible, the historical with the absolute characteristics. All that produces an artistic structure which does not reveal its potential meanings except by dialogue and interpretation.