Progress in Al-Khansa’a’s mourning for her brother Sakhr

(Poem: A speck in your eye...an example)

Abstract

This study shows latent aspects of the escalation of Al-Khansa’a’s weeping speech against her brother Sakhr. In her poem; A speck in your eye..., and its progress is in a scar; Word, meaning, and image, formed in its gradual transition from one state to another, more precise than it, to achieve what is intended, according to the position that the poet wants to express and deliver to the recipient through this text; Filled with pain, burning, moaning, and wailing, what made us discover the hierarchical variables in this pain, based on the variety of astonished expressions in the midst of the event, until she made her address to him ~ in the folds of his scar ~ the speech of an answering listener, as if she wanted to appease the truth and alleviate the calamity, so she called on someone else before it She calls him, then addresses him with the speech of the living, until she takes us up to the place of loss and farewell. In a soothing, unconventional language, and eloquent graphic images that focus in their features on the profound and poignant words, with which we feel the eternity of the words and the perpetual flow of them.

All of this is through studying the text, and revealing the means and tools that Al-Khansa’ used to escalate and advance in meaning and image, in a way that reflects the reality of what she was and mixed within her.

And the extent of her ability to arouse feelings and emotions in the recipient with the methods and data of her poetic scars in this poem. This research encompasses both aspects: theoretical and applied.