Abstract Translation of literary texts, especially poetry, is one of the most difficult tasks; it requires mastery and knowledge of the language system and culture, and lack of this might lead to wrong translation. This study aimed to examine the loss and gain of the sociocultural implicit meanings in the English translations of the Mu’allaqat, and assess whether the translators of the Mu’allaq...

the literature has already been a basic component in teaching foreign / second languages curriculum in comparing with other materials, therefore, this forces instructors to use literature for two purposes: first, teaching literature for literature and second , use of literature as a linguistic resource in order to improving language skill of learners, and this is important issue in applied ling...

elegy is one of the most distinct manifestation of arabic and especially islamic poetry. since the time that human beigns have begun their life on the planet and the sorrowful destination of death has looked for them, and since the time that the fear of death has settled in their heart, they have been familiar with elegy and they have composed everlasting odes regarding it.using mournful and gl...

mohamed javad bahmanyar an iranian scholar and scientist (j330 ah/1296 a.h) has com posed apoem in rajas meter reqarding arabic sentences and it's rinds as a completion for the al , alfeya of ibn malek the andolusian. this wniier has began with an introdue tion concerning persiam learned men and writers and thair role in the field of arabic researches in the past and future. their presents...

the present paper is looking for expressing one of the most important human's phenomenon: mourning; one of the types of the poetries which has a close relationship with humanistic, social and natural tendencies. the poets paid special attention to mourning since years ago as well as the contemporary era. the lebanese contemporary poets also paid special attention to the majesty of this gre...

ahmad waeli is one of the iraqi and shiite contemporary poets in the field of religious poem.in this type of poem, he has been able to set a strong link between the virtues of  ahl-e-beit (peace be upon them) and  political, social and cultural conditions prevailing his era. his religion poem is accompanied with wisdom and temperance. further, his religious poem shows his strong emotion, belief...

since the days of ignorance, ode in arabic literature has been written based on a specified system and poets and critics have used this defined structure as foundation of their works. arabic ode consists of several parts, each of which is an introduction to the next part; first verse of an ode is called matla'. after matla' are placed tashbib (to mention youth affairs) or nasib (soft ...

Hesiod's Works and Days is undeniably a didactic poem. It is concerned with real problems of mankind. At a first glance it may seem as a practical guide to living and prospering in the Ancient Greek world. The title itself, along with the many parts of the poem that deal with practical issues can lead one to this conclusion. A more careful analysis, however, can show that Works and Days is more...

What does it mean to write when you inhabit the fraught borderline between Hebrew and Arabic? Well, it depends on whom you ask. In a Hebrew poem insisting that strangers can be friends, the Palestinian Israeli poet Salman Masalha infuses the statement “Ani kotev ‘ivrit,” “I write Hebrew,” with myriad shades of wonder and possibility.3 In an opposing poetic maneuver, Sami Shalom Chetrit, a Moroc...