The Morphological and Grammatical Construction Rashid Eissa’s Poetry
Suha Fathi Na'jeh, Faculty of Arts, University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan.
Abstract
This research focuses on the poetry of the Jordanian poet Rashid Eissa. It tries to figure out the morphological and grammatical construction in his poetry. Eissa’s poetry, which has expanded in time and has grown in quality, is a unique prototype of poetry which emerged from an intentional attempt to create an exceptional linguistic construction. This construction is found in each poem, especially in his two collections (Ma Aqalla’ Habibati) and (Hafeed al-Jinn) as well as in widespread poems published in newspapers and magazines in Jordan and in the Arab World.
I think that the reader of Essa’s poetry will think there is a wise and professional linguist and a genuine literary innovator artist in the subconscious of Eissa's mind, for he tries to incorporate the system of language, trying to establish the essence of language according to criteria that guarantee valid structures of language, and creates through this creative process a literary taste. Essa is of a linguistic school which tries to utilise the lingual law of Almazeni (249a.h.) in his famous statement: (What is measured in the language of the Arabs belongs to their language). This school tries to enlarge the circle of qualitative and quantitative distribution of words, as well as grammatical and morphological patterns, attempting to redefine the Arabic dictionary and use its vocabulary whether its words are alive or dead, beautiful or hideous. Words for Essa are similar to human beings with regard to life and death, but at the same time they are different because words may return to life after death, but human beings cannot. A good writer would not say that words are by themselves beautiful or hideous. A word is Beautiful or hideous only with regard to a given context, and to the harmony between its phonetic (rhythmical), semantic and syntactic levels.