Satire techniques in the poetry of Ibn Mayada al-Marri

Section: Research Paper
Published
Jun 24, 2025
Pages
382-414

Abstract

Arabic literarture has known through times many various purposes and arts, these purposes and arts, witnessed developments as literarture did. Satire was one of these arts which appeared in early times of poetry . Satire has been renewed, i.e in early times it described faults of others then it began to describe faults of relatives, judges and even self satire. Ibn mayada ai-murry was aveteran poet lived in both(ummayyad era) and( abbasid era) , he was one of the satiric poets who were snippy. Satiric poems appeared very often in has collection which made us study has pomes and figure out tactics to express negative behavioure of others, high on the list of tactics which exposed psychological tension inside the poet himself and has view against society. (tactic of hiding, tactic of repetition, tactic of antonym) these tactics exposed what were in the mind of the poet such as scorning and mockery of others.

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Elias Ahmed Al-Ahmad, J., & جاسم. (2025). Satire techniques in the poetry of Ibn Mayada al-Marri. Adab Al-Rafidayn, 52(88), 382–414. https://doi.org/10.33899/radab.2022.173271