Salih TUR*
THE EMERGENCE AND DEVELOPMENT OF MODERNISM IN CONTEMPORARY ARABIC POETRY (1798-1950)
SALİH TUR / Şarkiyat Mecmuası Sayı 25 (2014-2) 209-231 209
THE EMERGENCE AND DEVELOPMENT OF
MODERNISM IN CONTEMPORARY
ARABIC POETRY (1798-1950)
نشأة حركة الحداثة وتطورها في الشعر العربي الحديث (1950-1798(
Salih TUR*
Abstract: This study has reviewed, the renovation movement in Arabic
poetry ever since it was started by Mahmoud Sami al–Baroudi until the
days the free verse movement as manifested in the poetry of Nazek al–Mela’ika,
Badr Shaker al–Sayyâb, and Abdul wahhâb al-Bayyâtî.
The study also pointed to the repercussions of Napoleon’s campaign
against the Arab region because it showed what extent this area was deeply
sinking in backwardness, further it– threw light on the need for renovation
even if it came from the west.
Modern poets believed that, it was necessary to regain firstly the language
and rhetoric of writers and poets of Abbasid period to get rid of
weakness in the poetry. Then, once language has got back its vividness and