The Tragic value in an anthology of lament poetry of cities in the Abbasid era

Abstract

Most studies have focused on the elegies of the kingdoms in Andalusian poetry, but it did not study the subject of lamenting cities in the Abbasid poetry. This prompted the researcher to focus on this aspect. Dropping some modern concepts of aesthetics (tragic value). He defined the term tragic and extracted from these definitions the model through which the concept of the tragic was manifested in the poetry of lamenting cities.

Then he studied the intellectual structure, which includes: the tragedy of ruin, destruction and death, and the tragedy of the disintegration of social and cultural bonds, and the tragedy of torment, humiliation. And humilia. And make the study of technical construction included in the intellectual construction.

Then he studied the functions of city lament poetry in the Abbasid era and ended up with a set of results: The most important of them: the value of the tragic was evident in the poetry of lamenting the cities in the Abbasid era; because these poets expressed the catastrophes

that befell their cities: Baghdad, Basra, and Jerusalem in a sincere expression that overflows with tones of sorrow, grief and regret.

Poets deliberately criticized and took to include their poems with stinging criticism of the political and  deteriorating social condition.

The poems came in lamenting cities, in general, courteous textures with strong expression, weeping in which the heartbreak and pain over the state of the nation appear, with a clear positive tendency to change the bad reality. Most of them are long poems, independent of purpose, while the syllables were less, and they were characterized by a popular character and simplicity in expression.