Authors : Zohreh Davari, Marzieh Khalili, Foad Abdollahzadeh and Ashourghlich Paseh
Abstract: One of the significant aspects of Jahiliyyah poetry which attracted attentions from new and old schools of criticism is their prologues. These prologues which open the odes, introduce concepts such as homeland, loss of beloved, standing over the ruins and lamentation over the losses and wreckages. The old schools critics in their analysis paid much attention to the formal aspects of these verses and found them imitative however, the contemporary critics evaluated divergent facets of them and had different interpretations which rarely been noticed. Hence, based on the new exegeses which are different from what old schools of criticism, this paper tries to explore and deal with concepts such as sociology, psychology and existentialism in the prologues of Jahiliyyah poetry.
Zohreh Davari, Marzieh Khalili, Foad Abdollahzadeh and Ashourghlich Paseh, 2016. The Prologue of Jahiliyyah Odes: A Study. The Social Sciences, 11: 3154-3157.