Artistic Employment of Quranic Symbols in Modern Syrian Poetry

Abstract

Modern poetry has paid attention to artistic symbols, due to the moral hoarding that these symbols carry, which in a brief phrase can refer to a long story or event that the text is not likely to include in its entirety. The symbol fulfills this function, which summarizes the pronunciation and satisfies the meaning. The study dealt with modern Syrian poetry in the first half of the twentieth century until before the free poetry and afterwards, and it was examined by poets such as Omar Abu Risha, Khalil Mardam, Muhammad al-Bazm, Omar Abu Qus and others. The research revealed the Qur’anic symbols that these poets used artistically, taking advantage of the semantic loads that refer to them. Prior to that, the research had drawn attention to the necessity of separating the Qur’anic symbols from the mythical symbols that tend to fiction rather than reality. Some researchers used to say that there are legends in the Qur’an and described some of its stories as myths, so it was necessary to point out the danger of this link that contradicts Islam and the Qur’an, which falsehood cannot approach it from before it or from behind it.