Pun in the Poetry of the Mamluki Era and it is Effect on Intensifying the Meaning

Abstract

Pun is regarded as one of the sophisticated and most important art of eloquence and the higher in rank. It depends on the ambiguity in meaning in a way that the intended meaning is referred indirectly. It was highly used by the poets during the Mammalia era in a way that they were well known for using it and we rarely see one of their poets that do not use it in his writing. Choosing this period in particular was because they used pun a lot in a way that they were highly known for using it till the point that it became a characteristic of their poetry. The poets competed with each other in using pun and they were indulged in it more than any other time. This is not an excuse to underestimate the value of their poetic production; because being fond of pun is part of their literary style which they adopted in a way that it became a prominent feature of their literature regarding it a necessity to elaborate speech. The most prominent feature of pun in this era is its richness and variety; it is an image of the culture where the aesthetic touches which pun creates through the profoundness of the meaning which creates an intellectual continuity between the text and the recipient by digging deep for the intended meaning. This is what confirmed the importance of the subject to be researched and make a scientific work related to eloquence. The poets of that time used pun a lot to express their feelings; through it the poet can reveal his creativity, sensation and sophisticated artistic taste in using the utterance to refer to more than one meaning, as well as the meditation it arouse and comparisons it leads to indicating a great energy of creativity and a wide artistic ability in investing in this art suitable for the meaning which the poet does not want to reveal.The rhetoricians declared anonymously that pun has two basic cornerstones; the explicit meaning and the hidden meaning, the intended one. Based on that, the rhetoricians have divided pun into several types