آداب الرافدين (Sep 1981)

The hero in the poetry of enthusiasm

  • Jalil Falih

DOI
https://doi.org/10.33899/radab.1981.166086
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 14
pp. 241 – 267

Abstract

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Few researchers have been concerned with a thorough study of defining the features of the hero or manifesting the characteristics of heroism in our Arabic poetry, although the researchers ’curricula have paid special attention to the study of poetry on the basis of purpose, and this approach still prevails in the studies of contemporary researchers in university theses and other studies. . Perhaps no foreigners are the truth, if I attribute this to the fact that the phenomenon of heroism is not specific to a certain aspect without other aspects of Arab life over time. The Arab championship is not only a battle championship, otherwise the study of the poetry of wars and facts enriches researchers in elucidating the image of the hero and the components of his heroic being, but the fact that the contemplating researcher does not overlook is that heroism is a higher human reality represented in the positive attitudes of man in the battlefield of life. War and peace, love and hate, feet and sizes, as represented in the entirety of his behavior is a moral value, a human practice and a continuity with human existence for the sake of its victory, pride and maintenance from waste, treachery and exaggeration, as it is the self-affirmation within the issues of social life in which a positive person's form of his original moral and social commitment is an element. Alive from the elements of its durability and revival. The hero is the model man who moves within the framework of reality with distinct intellectual and psychological characteristics that give rise to a distinctive behavior. Thus, the hero is the expression of the aspirations of man for the optimum. And when I held this topic, I saw - within the holistic vision of the character of the hero in Arabic poetry - that I shortened my witnesses to what was included in some of the collections called "the collections of the dove," which are poetic anthologies that embody the poets' positions on issues of life with a tendency to escalate these stances and give them high human characteristics . Perhaps these characteristics expressed by these anthologies are what motivated their owners to choose them and write them down and to be a document of values ​​and generous ideals for our nation through the leader of its poets.

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