آداب الرافدين (Sep 1981)
War poetry in Arabic literature between ancient and modern
Abstract
Since the dawn of history, human life has faced a violent struggle with nature, and then that conflict was between nation and nation, confirming the principle of sovereignty and achieving ambitions. Hence, the wars between nation and nation were a continuous debate that ended with the victory of the victor and the defeat of the defeated. The history of different nations preserved for us the images of that conflict, and these wars, including the wars of the Athenians with the Spartans, even though they were children of one nation and one language as well. The news of the American war reminds us of the fighting between the people of the North and the people of the South, and the history also reminds us of the civil war of the French nation, and the massacres between the people of China and the people of Spain, and other than these and those of the nations and peoples that fell in their civil wars thousands of people. This picture applies to most nations of the earth, from ancient to modern (so do not be tempted, then, for the ancient Arabs to fight among themselves the warmest fight, and for war to be in a house they are a secret of beauty, and they are the only nation that has lived for a long time working on its own rich from its neighbors) and most of the time The life of the Arabs, including its difficult nature, a certain social chaos, and political relations imposed by the nature of the desert, and the sharp temper that characterized the Arab according to a specific intellectual viewpoint, and what was reflected from all of this was the nature of the man, his psyche and his temperament, a chaotic tendency. All of this ended up being in the image that we found, which had negative effects on the Arabs, and it often ended in bitter conflict and terrible fighting, sometimes spanning tens of years.
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