Poetic Image throughout Melodious Psalms of Love
Shedding the light on paraphrasing that poetic rhetorical image in the stanza of ‘ Melodious Psalms of Love’, written by the poetess: Dr.Ilham Essa-Syria, the analytical study watered down by Saeeda Barakat – Tunisia.
What are those figurative images, and what are the whereabouts of their offspring, do they achieve the far-fetched target an morale?
As an inception set off from the start of the opening up of creative literary genre – which is the headtitle “ Melodious Psalms of Love” , the Psalm is that cherubim angelic chant with gentle melodious intonation; the singer sang his psalm on the string instrumental Lute with charming dazzling musical note after his feedback; the connotation of the concept ‘love’ made us render through the platonic lexical and etymological spotlight as ‘ the movement of vacant soul’, whereas Aristotle defined that love as the blindedness of pathos from realizing the shortcomings of the lover.
‘Then, ‘Love’ refers to a sole word that releases the pains and burdens of life’ as Sophocles said before
Wasseny Ala’raj said that ‘ love is happiness for sometimes , perhaps forever, you don’t need a great portion of it but some of generosity and little liberty’.
The first and foremost imagery of that notion mingled with the melodious charm of love, surely had the timing for the birth of light out of the darkness, or the appearance of the altar of love where prayers of austerity took place.
‘The philosophy of beauty and the Aesthetics sphere of science and Rhetorical Jurisprudence along with the images and saturation of fancy and embellishment’
A lot of philosophical branches didn’t pinpoint a meticulous precise science in itself, till Bumgarten (1762-1714), in his last writings he titled ‘Philosophical Contemplative Snapshots’; some of didactic information about the Concept of Poetry 1735, he differentiated between the Aesthetics and other cognitive anthropological conception, ‘ Aesthetics is a branch of dealing with nature, beauty and art.’ Hegel saw that Aesthetics is that domesticated genie run into us and coincided everywhere.
At the inception, the poetess motivated that passion in a diligent move towards its targeted destination, along with a flying cloud, likely to rain love or ring those alerting bells, that triggering of ‘ bells’ is closely related to ‘ drums of war’ ; the beauty of the poetic image made that trigger like ringing a bell, eventually the title was ‘ the ringing melodious psalms of love’
‘That love marched on the face of an imbued cloud
Waving both wings to ring the bells
Sailing across the torrential fusillade of rain
Embroidered with golden threads’
The reader looked into that word ‘ sail’ that meant pelted through denoting a sound , as the ships sail; that ‘torrential fusillade’ like that influx of the flood out of superfluous waters, that scene offspring from the face of the cloud made that pictorial image outstanding by the quill of an artist.
The writer tried out to awaken everything in the environs of that lover, rang that bell related with hearing sense, directing his attention, then erupted that volcano ‘ the scene of fire to awaken his sighting sense’, despite hopes of return, the soul escaped and mingled with the chosen verb ‘ flow’ . Referring to the abovementioned, the rhythmic melody and eruption did not instigate but soothe and pacify the inner self of the poetess.
The beauty of the scenery, that sort of love reached the zenith, carrying along rosy dreams and fuss in reciprocity , the rhythm of that text elevated and levitated with the uprising of passions , related to those bells-volcanos eruption-rosy dreams, to formulate a bunch of pathos in procession to incorporate the psalms.
She painted by a stroke of a pen sensuous poetic image never spared that rosy pink color of blossoms or watering springs for thirst or quenching the blaze of love. Dr.Ilham, almost motivated the natural elements to add much more enchanting magic of charm. ( an imbued cloud-rains-volcano-night-pearls-eveniing-light-glitch of glow-horizon-infested clouds)
Nature symbolizes generally peace and tranquility in poetry, both interrelated , the poets absorb all poetic images from natural elements, even they are entwined to make a specific figure.
The finale of the stanza drove us to the concluding end:
‘We implanted from that alphabetical letters
The buds of our love’
That sort of implanting and instilling seeds is correlated with land soil in need of fertilization, poetess pointed out that there must be a land to help the growth of love buds and realm of rosy dreams, as she was that escaper from ‘ the hopes of return’
This is a clear-cut evidence that she was affected by the Romantic school of poetry that engendered that nature as the bird of poetic inspiration and dramatization of feelings.
That image is synonymous with nature , thus that poem could be depicted as “ Nature Poem’.
The poetic image depicted that linguistic structural paradigm that the poet engendered his vision, trespassing the usual patterns to the farfetched experience, in form of interaction between two conceptual and linguistic processes resulting in partial conformity or overall, inbetween lied a cinematographic textile driven by imaginary poetic view in a sound language structure, to express the inner exquisite experience, and also defined as sensuous picturing of ideological thought of a critic or the literator to find the connotation of the linguistic insinuation and also psychological and artistic, or that reasonable picturing throughout simile , metaphors and functionality through revival of metaphorical allegory for words in the literary text.
In spite of the variety of definitions of concepts on the modern Arabic criticism, it is confounded in its notion as a special way of writing style, chosen by the poet as per his imaginary abilities and cultures, discovering his thoughts and psychological or creative domains through. Dr. Ilham is skilled at simulation with nature and conveyance of her passion even through prostration in her altar, to revive the bygone past in the hope for restoring warmth and serenade of the bonfire of longing, the text is rich in that stunning congruity with nature to sing those psalms on the strings of the yore and rosy dreams.
The Poem:
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Melodious Psalms of Love’
‘That love marched on the face of an imbued cloud
Waving both wings to ring the bells
Sailing across the torrential fusillade of rain
Embroidered with golden threads
The fussy mess in soul overflow from depth
Letting aside a volcano in eruption phase, now and again
The soul in subsequent flow fleeing from hopes of return
The longing itself carried along rosy dreams
Psalms of love along with rains of memory
And, lanterns of my solitude
Yearn to the euphoria of prolonged night
Flowing like pearls
The spectral lines caressing the zenith
Prostrating in the altar of love
Caressing the hearts of lovers to revive that yore
How come we partake in reciprocity that famine and thirst
Lighten up those bonfires of longing like lanterns of evening
Light did shine to fill the far-fetched horizon with luminous glow
We both soar up high in the space vastness with love
Erecting that castle over the lofty clouds
Instilling those alphabetical letters-
Buds of love.”
