The image of fire in andalusian poetry, a descriptive-analytical study

Abstract

The research aims to study the image of fire in Andalusian poetry, reveal its features, the most prominent poets who describe it and extract innovative images in describing it. The research included a preface and two main parts. The preface was devoted to talking about the sources of literature and heritage that allocated special chapters to describe fire. The first part dealt with a fire in its physical form, which branched into several points: coal and ash fire, stove fire, and describing fire with the characteristics of women. Describing the fire in its movement and stillness, the fire of candle and lamp, the fire of oil on the water. The second part, focuses on the fire in its metaphorical image, as the fire of passion, the fire of love, and the fire of guidance and unfairness. The research concluded with a set of results, the most important are: the poetry describing fire came in the form of stanzas, and the images of fire varied between traditional and innovative. To achieve the desired results, the researcher used the analytical descriptive approach in addition to the aesthetic approach.

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