TITLE:
Scientific Expressions in Abolfaraj Rouni’s Anthology
AUTHORS:
Mohammad Reza Najjarian
KEYWORDS:
Abolfaraj Rouni, Scientific Terms, 6th Century Poetry
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Modern Linguistics,
Vol.6 No.5,
October
14,
2016
ABSTRACT: Abolfaraj Rouni
is a pioneer of a new poetry style who has influenced all the 6th century
(A.H) poets directly and indirectly. His own and his followers’ poems have
served as a basis for changing the Khorasani style to Iraqi style. His
anthology is fraught with a variety of Arabic words and Expressions, Quranic
tenets, literary figures, and poetic features. One can specifically refer to
his exotic overstatements about the eulogized. To understand his poems is
generally difficult because it calls for a perfect knowledge of such field as
astronomy, rhetoric, logic, philosophy, theology, and the like. Here is a
typical verse of such poems: Thou at rest like the poles, But in race like the moon. Abolfaraj
has based his imagery upon science. He has also utilized conventions such as
games of chess as well as literary issues as associations for his images. He
sometimes even makes a war image using a literary issue as in the following
line: Rascals seized thee from all sides, But were depunctuated by thy prowess. In this research,
we have studied and explained the role of Abulfaraj Rouni in using terms and expressions derived from
various fields of science that makes changing the Khorasani style to Iraqi
style.