The Morphological Reversion of Intensive Patterns in the Poems of Al-Mutanabbi in Praise of Sayf Al-Dawla Al-Hamdani

Abstract

This study discusses the stylistic displacements of the intensive verb patterns in Al-Mutanabbi's poems praising Sayf Al-Dawla Al-Hamdani. It aims to reveal the special implications obtained from using intensiveness as one of the available linguistic elements in Arabic. These linguistic signs distinguishing the texts, through linguistic and moral features, have stylistic, artistic, informative, influential, and persuasive functions that produce an aesthetic effect on the reader. This paper analyses the deep linguistic structure used to exaggerate the normative Arabic expression via a deep contextual analysis to reveal the transformations of the linguistic structure and its transcendence to the normal level of exaggerated expression. Therefore, this approach helps to understand the emotional state and the textual discourse of intensiveness and its methods of expression in Al-Mutanabbi's poetry. The research results illustrate the dominance of the stylistic, linguistic stimulus in the pattern fa’ool [فعول], used in Al-Mutanabbi's poetry when praising Sayf Al-Dawla, over other forms. The patterns of the event and the subject were transformed into the pattern fa’ool [فعول] because it is appropriate to praise Sayf Al-Dawla Al-Hamdani. Finally, the semantic focus is directed to the reader to achieve the influential and persuasive function in the awareness of the reader according to the image that the poet wants.