The Poetics of Advancement and Delay in the Wisdom Included in Love Poetry in the Islamic and Umayyad Eras

Abstract

The method of presentation and delay has been mentioned frequently in the wisdom contained in the love poems of the poets of this era. These poets have resorted to it to convey to the recipient what they want by presenting and showing elements over others through breaking the familiar and changing the pattern of expectation in the recipient to surprise him with the linguistic shift and departure from what is familiar to him. Accordingly, he should savor the meaning and its beauty and make the speech effective in the mind of the recipient. The creator seeks several purposes when using this method, including interest, brevity, confinement, drawing attention, and others, or he goes out for an artistic and aesthetic purpose that he seeks to achieve to arrange the words in a way other than what their mental arrangement requires in the recipient.