The Aesthetics of Language in the Poem “Fantasy Unfolded from a White Hand” by Ḥāzim al-Qurṭājannī

Abstract

This paper investigates the aesthetics of language in the poem “Fantasy Unfolded from a White Hand” by Ḥāzim al-Qurṭājannī, in which the poet praised the Caliph al-Mustansir (d. 675 Ah/1276 Ad), one of the kings of the Hafsian State in Tunisia. This study looks at the most prominent semantic fields related to the poet's poetic dictionary such as the field of colors, the field of nature and the field of war terms, in order to represent the purpose of the poem, in addition to highlighting its artistic effect in the text.

The study addresses the significant linguistic and aesthetic phenomena used by the poet to reflect his ideas and figurative images such as antonymy, synonymy and intertextuality. This is achieved through studying the relationship between form and structure, and how the linguistic choices play a role in portraying the poet’s ideas and making the text poetic.