The Poetic Story in Contemporary Arabic Literature

Abstract

The poetic story contained dramatic elements in all its dimensions, including an event, characters, time, place, complex, and solution. These elements contributed to highlighting the concept of generosity and the emotion of pain and poverty, which filled the poet’s heart and controlled his feelings. We do not know if this story was real or imaginary, but it came with a beginning. The middle and end depend on the logical sequence in narrating events, ideas, and meanings, and are narrated in the third person, which suggests that the narrator does not identify with one of the characters in the story: therefore, the time of its occurrence was the same as the time of the story’s narration. In addition to this, the story was filled with artistic methods and wonderful images, which the poet derived from his surrounding environment and from his cultural stock, employing these methods and images to attract the attention of the recipient and develop the dramatic event.