Clarity and vagueness in modern Islamic Poetry:A study of three Islamic poems

Abstract

This study is considered an applied study from one side and it attempts to prove a major theoretical notion from the other. It has chosen three Islamic poems belong to three Mosuli poets; as it found that those poems published in this book have followed three styles. The first is represented by the artistic clarity style, which belongs to Salah Al-Deen Aziz entitled (fifty years). The second represented the artistic vagueness style, which is the poetic utterance or what is called the Prose Poem belong to Khalid Othman, entitled (Khalid Othman’s Confessions). The third embodied a middle style between vagueness and clarity belongs to Thanoon Younis Mustafa entitled (A Modern Burda). Poetry as a whole has oriented towards two styles: artistic clarity style and artistic vagueness style. Each style has its own criteria. Such criteria have been reflected on the whole Arab poetry in general and the Islamic poetry in particular. As we can see, modern Islamic poetry in Mosul – which is the subject of our study – has adopted all the criteria in its poetic experience. This is the main theoretical notion we are going to prove; as these poems - we have already analyzed - indicate that modern Islamic poetry is not necessarily characterized –as a whole - by straightforwardness and reportage feature and it does not restrict artistic styles and forms as well. Using such styles without opposing writing by means of poetic utterance manner – or what is called prose poem – to convey the Islamic point of view in an Islamic fashion, which indicates its wide horizon, humanity, openness and multiplicity