جماليه الزّحافات و العلل في شعر ابن الفارض

Aesthetics of Poetic License in Poems of Ibn al-Farez

This paper intends to prove the importance of Arabic prosody as one of the criteria for criticism of Arabic texts through the concept of poetic license and to explain its effect on creating a musical and conceptual value in poetry. The concept of poetic license is one of the structures of the science of prosody.One of the findings of this paper shows that theories of literary criticism, the old ones in particular,has not paid enough attention to poetic as a technique that adds to the aesthetic value of the poetry. This is because traditional critics consider poetic license as a flaw which makes poem unattractive and revolting. Therefore, samples of unconventional poems of Ibn al-Farez are mentioned in this paper, which indicate the fast or slow musical rhythm of his poetry and put an end to the monotony of using a unified model of prosodic rhymes.The musical ups and downs arising from poetic license in these samples are in line with the poet’s emotional mood swings.