Death experience in the hair Khansaa: between reality and example

Saad Lateef, Hasan

	Death experience in the hair Khansaa: between reality and example
Journal of The Thi Qar Arts
Article 1, Volume 1, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 73-83
Author
hasan saad lateef
Abstract
The Death Experience in Al-Khansa'a Poetry between Realism and Idealism Al-Khansa'a was not a happy woman during the most stages of her life. She didn't live a delightful life for a long period because she lived a life full of calamities and was a succession of misfortunes. Thus, her divan is an epic of endless sorrows and pains which created a big lamenter out of the poetess who represented the theme of eulogy in the Arabic poetry. Death was the big cause that aroused the fears of the poetess and created inside her that long psychological struggle from which she suffered a lot. Those things are indicated in her poetry and through her poetic experience that comes out with a great deal of wisdom and preachment, all of which are referring to human immortality and memories and sorrows' survival. In the early part of her life, she was scared of death and fearing about her family and her beloved ones from that unknown destiny, but her acute perception and amiable peaceful soul had opened before her eyes the means of salvation and death was transformed, in her view, from a bitter, painful reality to a source for inspiration, meditation and thinking of the worldly life and the hereafter. The poetess' verses are fruitful with reference to her psychology. In every verse, we find her soul wandering and unstable with an evident touch of sadness and vanishing tune of pleasure. Under their meanings, there is a great deal of restless and anxiety , all of which are revealing her suffering and fears of what is hidden for her. Her poetic talent is represented be her precise depicting of the grieves and pains invading her being as well as her creating of her sentimental experience and formulating it in poems taking the recipient to endless worlds of sorrows. Al-Khansa'a had found in poetry an escape from her psychological tortures to get rid of her sufferings and agonies. Her poetry is featured by so many values appropriate for her purified person; they are values uttering her reality and depicting her picture as a woman hardened by years and sophisticated by experience; therefore, her poetry is full of wisdom and contemplation revealing to us a special ideality in transforming her inner vision concerning the issue of death into a through subject and a general case describing the sufferings and distresses of all mankind which is a reflection of her private experience Al-Khansa'a experience in poetry was an extraction of many situations at which the poetess had lived a bitter psychological struggle before she got rid of it in her poetry. She relied on her poetry in recalling their details. The most important of those situations was connected with her great suffering from loosing her siblings and relatives which was a big turning point in an early period of her life. Hassan Saad Lateef

Statistics Article View: 165 PDF Download: 33