A Study of Semantic Methods in Al-Mutanabbi’s Poem (Everyone Has His Own Way of Life)

Abstract

The importance of the study stems from its approach to the semantic level of Al-Mutanabbi's poem through a stylistic study; to uncover the aesthetic treasures contained in the poem, within a statistical tool; because it was not studied as the researcher intends to study it, and the study aims to track the analysis of the semantic level of the poem, and to clarify the various linguistic styles in the poem that distinguished it from others, and to show the aesthetic value in the diversity of its purposes.

    The study followed the descriptive analytical approach based on description and analysis, and the study reached a set of results, the most prominent of which are:

1) The request construction with its styles: command, question, call, prohibition, exclamation, similes and metaphors, and some rhetorical embellishments, and semantic fields, work together to reveal the depths of the poem that were not explicitly mentioned.

2) The poetic purposes in the poem were multiple, which was reflected in the multiplicity of semantic fields that reveal the poet's desires.

3) The metaphorical and figurative metaphor formed a prominent stylistic feature in the poem, revealing Al-Mutanabbi’s skill in going against the norm, as it was full of multiple and extended meanings that were open to interpretation, and took the statement out of the stereotype of known discourse, and rescued the text from the lowest depths of reporting to the heavens of captivating poetry.