Critical Issues in the poetry of Turfa Ibn Al-Abd

Habeeb Al-Gureity, Hakim; Nihad Al-Esawi, Zahraa

	Critical Issues in the poetry of Turfa Ibn Al-Abd
The Arabic Language and Literature
Article 1, Volume 1, Issue 18, 2018, Pages 47-74
Authors
Hakim Habeeb Al-Gureity; Zahraa Nihad Al-Esawi
Abstract
The research has tackled the most important critical opinions about the poetry of Turfa Bin Al-Abd and after discussing them, we were able to reach the final results. This study was also successful in revealing the most prominent artistic features of the poet. The results that were reached were as follows: The importance and status that he gained among the poets of his time was not for nothing but for his unique poeticism which was revived by the circumstances that he lived which fed his imagination and aroused his emotions specially because he was an orphan the main reason for being so compassionate. Adding to that the conflicts which the poet lived during his life that were between his people and their opponents. The poet showed his ability through using the terms that were the nearest to the heart by giving his own opinions in which he used the sense verbs a lot taken from the real life. His poetry belongs to the late pre-Islamic era were this type of poetry reached a stable refine state reflected in his structures, poetic imagination and simile which was admired by all critics. The poetry of Turfa drew the attention of the modern critics as well as the ancient ones and both had the same opinion of his works. The research reached that the poet has a prominent genius personality which is regarded as a phenomena in the Arab poetry. The poetic purposes that the poet used were affected by the type of life and social circumstances that the Arabs lived and he felt as a stranger although he loved his people and was proud of them and wrote about them many poems of pride. He has a profound look to every simple item making it a critical matter as death and life. He was considered as the poet of the Arab area with all its mountains, plains, horses, camels and all it traditions during peace and war. He deserves to be called as a world poet were the pain was his greatest motive for writing. Finally, we hope that we were successful in our research and revealing the works presented by the poet which was unique and special. That was the reason why many critics of the modern and the ancient times were eager to study his poetry.
Keywords
Critical Issues in the poetry

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