Studying Drama aspects of Motenabbi poems

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Drama is one of the most important expressive strategies and has the highest level of technical meaning which is very obvious in poets of Abbasid period. It should be mentioned that the basic reason of using this way of expression is the influence of Greece philosophy and literature, also translating poems of important people like Jawlines and Socrates by Arab poets which is more adapted to sophists' method of the third century AD. From another aspect religious, political party and politic struggles lead to using Drama technique by these poets and building poems structure based on using opposite words and making oppositeness in its meaning.
Abu Tayyeb Motenabbi is one of those poets who were following the events of Abbasid period like using Drama struggle and tension in his poems. He didn't ignore the key role of words and poetic meaning in making tension Drama quarrelsome poems and tendency to quarrel. To tell the truth he is one of the pioneers. This study wants to investigate and critic some of his Drama poems by using analysis-description method. The result of this study shows that three kind of Drama vertically dynamic and horizontal are existing in Motenabbi poems. Horizontal Drama has more opportunity to show itself because of similarity of its meaning with morality and Motenabbi manner. But become floating in political matters in Abbasid period has less important than two other kind of Drama

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