The Structure of the Poem in Outcasts'[alSa`aleek] Poetry Orwah Bin Al-Ward as a Model

Abstract

   This research tries to clarify the structure of the poem in the poetry of Gangers. It studies the poetry of Orwah Bin Al-Ward as a model. The research presents the problem on which scholars have stopped. The problem was that the poetry of Gangers in general has been marked as pieces of poems, not poems. This research deals with this problem through reconsidering the concept of the poem depending on old Arab critics view and the modern criticism view. It ends to say that the concept of "piece of a poem" reflects the simplicity and in-completion, whereas these "pieces of poems” can be considered as short poems. This can be done when this concept has been identified and compared with the concept of the long poem.

   On this basis, the poems of Orwah Bin Al-Ward have been analyzed in order to reach the constructive systems on which short and long poems have been based. The analysis has revealed that the most important ones. Short poems have been based on the following structures: motivation and unloading structure; on-going linear structure; parallelism structure; periodic structure; a structure based on an interview basis, a multiple-perspective structure for a central idea. However, long poems have been based on two structures: the interconnected structure and the fragmented juxtaposition structure (with non-existent center). Finally, the visions behind these structures have been revealed.