Studies on Arabic Language and Literature

Aesthetics of Repetition in “An Address from the Market of Idleness” by Samīh Al-Qāsim

Document Type : Scientific- Research Article

Author

Ali Asghar Ghahramani Moghbel

Associate Professor, Department of Arabic Language and Literature, Bushehr University, Bushehr, Iran.

https://doi.org/10.22075/lasem.2017.1343
Abstract
In Arabic poetry, the device of repetition functions at two levels: form and meaning. In form, repetition makes for musical richness, and in meaning, it makes for emphasis. The present article is a study of repetition in “An Address from the Market of Idleness” by Palestinian poet Samīh Al-Qāsim. The poem depicts actual and possible Palestinian sufferings inflicted by Israelis and stresses that the poet’s resistance against the enemy will not be affected. In this article, the device of repetition is studied by considering repeated words, phrases and similar verb forms, and the poet’s intention in using repetition.

Keywords

repetition
Music
Emphasis
Resistance
Subjects
  1. Hasan, Rugaiya, Linguistics, language, and verbal art, Oxford University Press, 1989.
  2. Weil, Gotthold, “ʿArūd. I”, in Encyclopaedia of Islam, New Edition, Leiden- London: Brill- Luzac, 1960, Volume I, pp. 667-677.
Studies on Arabic Language and Literature
Volume 3, Issue 10
Volume 3, Issue 10 & 11, Summer and Fall 2012.
Autumn 2012
Pages 47-66

  • Receive Date 28 January 2017
  • Revise Date 11 February 2019
  • Publish Date 01 December 2012

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