The expressiveness of diction and the rhythm of poetry, Burdah Al Busiri's performance as a model

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Lecturer - Department of Arabic Language and Literature - Faculty of Arts - Cairo University

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This study attempts to approach two parallel arts that complement each other, namely poetry and recitation. As the good poet in the beginnings was only a good reciter / performer at the same time, so if he lost the means through which he presents his creativity, then how can he communicate with his audience and the recipients of this creativity?! Poets were competing with each other to create poetry - on the one hand - and to communicate this literary work to the recipient in a way that is no less creative - on the other hand.

Rhythm is the mainstay on which both arts are based. Rhythm is the characteristic that distinguished poetry throughout its history, and took it out of the circle of ordinary speech. Rhythm - also - is the heart of the art of diction, so diction is the art of pronouncing words, and the art of pronouncing speech is the art of dealing with the human voice and adapting it to communicate the connotations that the speaker wants to present to the recipient, in an attractive and tireless way.
This study chose to begin first with the theoretical side - taking description and analysis as its approach - by examining the most important terms of the art of diction to which Abd al-Warith Aser, the author of the major book "The Art of Diction", was exposed.

Then I approached the practical side through the performance of Burda Al-Busiri's poem by some of the most important performers in the twentieth century, trying to explain the dialectical relationship between the two arts, and the impact of recitation methods on the rhythm of poetry.




 

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