Dr. Mahmoud Ahmed Shaker, a faculty member from the department of Arabic language at the college of Islamic sciences has published recently a research paper entitled “The departure of young people in Umayyad poetry: Al-Araji and Al-Ahwas as a model: an analytical study” in the latest issue of the Damascus University Journal for Arts and Humanities.
The research dealt with the artistic scene of the departure of young people with a preface in which it shed light on the first beginnings of discourse about this important phenomenon from the history of Arabic poetry goes back to the ignorant era up to the Umayyad era through studying Al-Araji and Al-Ahwas poetry as models for the great similarities & differences between them to make a comparison between their literary works. The lecturer sought to identify this scene by analyzing poetic evidence, revealing the artistic aspects of their poetry, most notably dialogue and the resources of the image according to these two poets. Dr. Mahmoud Ahmed reached at some interesting findings, including the creation of the unity between the two poets, the clear employment of the dialogue by Al-Araji in order to reveal the manifestations of aging and graying, while Al-Ahwas used an internal dialogue as a kind of a revelation of the suffering he suffered after the youth has passed away. He added that Al-Araji’s poems reflected a rebellion against the sense of aging, which is something we did not find in Al-Ahwas’ poems who often cried over the passage of youth and its pleasure. The environment was a natural resource that clearly infiltrated in the images of these poets related to in the departure of the youth period.
