Aesthetic Values between Reality and Expectations in the Poem of Tuwet Al-Yamamy

(Meshael Ali Hamad Al-okly)

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Abstract

Tuwet Al-Yamamy is an obscure poet from the Islamic Umayyad Era. His news and history are rare in old and modern literature books. Recently, some of his news and poems were collected by Dr. H. Aldakheel totaling twelve pieces of texts and sixty-seven poem verses. The subject of his poem focused mainly on a woman named Su'ada Azhar, whome he loved, but was married to another man from Yamamah. The poem of Tuwet Al-Yamamy moves around two main components: The person represented by the poet himself while the other component represented Su'ada and her surroundings. It is noticeable that the second pole is the motivator for the events to happen and be provoked. It has been observed that this second pole is the source of the tragedy and the base of the values of the beauty and the ugliness. This research aimed to study the text of Tuwet Al-Yamamy. The importance of the topic comes from the fact that it is the first work that deals with this unknown poet Aesthetic values, that was not extensively studied previously. To achieve this goal, the work discussed several topics, notably: Aesthetic values, the technical and poetic language, poetic vocabulary, organic unity, and the artistic imagination of the texts. The revealed repetitions in the contents, vocabulary, and image construction with excessive ego use and personal bias in addition to extreme viewing of events. Key Words: Umayyad era poem, Su'ada bint Azhar, Yamamah.
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