مضامين شعر الشكوي الذاتيه في القرن الاول الـهجري

The Contents of The Complaint in The First Century A.H

Complaint poetry is a natural expression of human grief, pain, dissatisfaction, or resentment arising from life’s different problems. Complaint poetry regarded as a kind of lyric poem in which the speaker faces the cruelty of a faithless lover or the advent of some misfortune like poverty, exile, injustice, in which the poet laments or protests or tells of those miseries. The complaint poetry considered as one of the old form of Arabic poetry. Death and Time, love and separation, imprisonment, aging, sickness and guilt and tragedies of life are regarded as the most important concerns of self-complaint in the first century of hegira. Complaint poetry in this century remained in extension of what was prevalent in the pre-Islamic poetry in terms of rhyme, form and poetic images. Nevertheless with the appearance of Islam, many aspects of life changed and this matter had a great impact on the viewpoint of the people; so that the complaint of poverty and death, and different problems of human life dropped. But on the other hand there have been a lot of complaint about the parting of sons and relatives who immigrated to different countries to spread Islam in other countries. The complaint poetry in the first century of hegira is characterized by the similarity of styles and overlapping of meanings and self-experiments while artistic and technical illustrations and images were different among poets.