مظاهر السّرياليّة في أشعار أبي العلاء المعرّي (سقط الزند نموذجاً)

Surrealism in Abul Ala al-Ma'arri’s Poems

Each era has its literature which is affected by different factors such as social and cultural factors. One of the considerable issues in nations' literature is literary schools which are a set of theories and characteristics that come into existence as a result of social, political and cultural conditions of their era. One of these schools which is influential and debatable in world literature is Surrealism which originated from France during World War 1 and 2. It argued about the supreme reality and demanded a correction in our definition of reality and a change in the world. This study attempts to analyze surrealism in the poems of the great poet of the Abbasi era, Abul Ala al-Ma'arri, and state that the most important principals od surrealism in his poems are paying attention to dreams and abnormal and unreal issues which are abundant in his poems, as well as the creation of paradoxical images and attributing abnormal properties to normal objects each of which is indicative of the world of imagination, thoughts and inner feelings of the poet.