A reading on the poem "Anshuda al-Matar" composed by Badr Shaker Al-Siyab from the perspective of analyzing Farklaf's critical discourse.

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 University of Tehran

2 Ph.D. Arabic Language and Literature, Azad University

Abstract

Critical discourse analysis is considered to be an interdisciplinary approach in modern criticism theories, whose origin goes back to linguistics.
The discourse in its completeness reaches the theory of critical analysis of Norman Fairclough, an American thinker, who bases the analysis of the text on three levels of description, interpretation and explanation and on the three axes of language, ideology and power. This theory has been used in various intellectual fields, including the analysis and explanation of literary texts.Meanwhile, due to its special and effective ode in contemporary Arabic poetry and the presence of various socio-political and literary extratextual factors that have influenced Siyab's poetry and thought, the ode of Al-Matar has made it necessary for the writers to read this ode with a new In the framework of Farklaf's critical discourse theory and its passage through the three levels of description, interpretation, and explanation - which are considered important and practical aspects of the theory in examining types of discourse, especially literary texts - explore the various linguistic, literary, and intellectual layers of Siyab in this ode.
The purpose of this research, which is provided in a descriptive-analytical way, is to create a new perspective on al-Mutar's poem, and it pursues it by answering the question that basically, how and to what extent the adaptation of this poem to the framework of Fairclough's theory is capable of new and deeper meanings.To create for its audience in understanding the thought of contemporary Arabpoetry,especially Badr Shaker Al-Siyab.
The results of the research show that the adaptation of Farklauf's theory on this poem can lead the audience to understand deeper layers of meaning in it and at the same time give more clarity to Siyab's effective intellectual dimensions in contemporary Arabic poetry.