Aesthetic Employment Patterns of Historical Personality in the Poetry of Abi Firas Al-Hamdani

Abstract

Abu Firas Al-Hamdani employed historical figures in his poetry in an artistic manner based on the principles of harmony and intent, taking into account the cohesion between the connotations of the character and the dimensions of his poetic experience. He integrated these figures into the structure of his text, loaded with intellectual and psychological implications that align with the overall semantic context of his work. This surpassed their limitations and uniqueness, creating a new vision, transforming the historical character from a state of inertia to a dynamic temporality, introducing it to the essence of humanity. He chose the characters based on their distinctiveness, effectiveness, and their ability to accommodate his experience, granting them interpretative dimensions to the extent that it liberates them from historicity while preserving the truth of their existence simultaneously. Thus, he subordinated the historical to the artistic, harmonizing the characters within his poetic fabric, becoming part of the meanings produced by the text.

The study addresses the patterns of employing historical characters in his poetry; he mentioned them by name, title, and nickname, and by the event and the situation they went through, transforming historical knowledge into symbols and cognitive connotations that needed to be uncovered to understand their implications and the mechanisms of their utilization in serving his poetic discourse and his poetic purposes.