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Modernist Poetry in
Arabic
T.S Eliot
Poetry has primarly to do with the
expression of feeling and emotion;…
these… are best expressed in the common
language of the people – that is, the
language common to all classes: the
structure, the rhythm, the sound, the
idiom of a language express the
personality of the people which speaks it.
Arab Poetic Modernity
Resulted from two major forces:
1. The influence of western modernist
movement.
2.The state of Arabic poetry of the
mid point of the 20th C.
• What are the Cultural events that
are regarded as “the intellectual
basis of modernism” in Europe?
• A. Arab Romanticism (Modern Poetry)
• B. Symbolism: Arab Symbolists
- Said Aql’s: al Majdaliyyah 1957
• C. Early Experiment in form
- Abu Shadi: free verse, several
metere, poetry-in prose
• D. Surrealist experiment
The Modernist period: 1948
1. Pioneer phase (Fifties + sixsties,
2. Chaotic phase of the seventies)
3. Present Phase