Antonyms in the Woman Poetry in Sabt Ibn Al-Taawithi Collection (Born in 583 A.H.)

Section: Research Paper
Published
Mar 1, 2023
Pages
153-181

Abstract

The woman was one of the most essential poetic topics on which poets wrote, as she represents life. Poets, both ancient and modern, are conscious of their beauty and attractiveness, and they overprescribe her. The Arab poets described a womans beauty by depicting her sensory and moral appearance in terms of regularity and symmetry in her descriptions, moderation in her form, and aesthetic emotions. The influence of a womans attractiveness is seen in the Sabt Ibn Al-Taawithi Collections correlation of her beauty with antonyms vocabularies that have a direct or contextual connotation in its depiction of beauty. As a result, the womans image appeared in the poets collection (Sabt Ibn Al-Taawithi) with the vision of a unique creative aesthetic based on connotations and symbolism based on particular antonym values at the artistic level. By depicting them sensually and morally, the antonyms assisted in intensifying the meaning and stimulating the recipients intellect. As a result, the poet could create artistic images of the adored through flirtation by using antonyms in his poetic texts to create aesthetic energy through antonyms rhythm and to create a gap within the text in order to make contact with the recipient, and as a result, he came up with multiple antonyms bearing connotative energies about womens beauty.

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Khair El Din Saeed, N., & Yassin Muhammad Al-Hamdani, F. (2023). Antonyms in the Woman Poetry in Sabt Ibn Al-Taawithi Collection (Born in 583 A.H.). Adab Al-Rafidayn, 53(92), 153–181. https://doi.org/10.33899/radab.2023.177829