The poet Abdul Karim Al-Afidli: Nabati folk poetry is derived from the Arabic language

Al-Hasakah-SANA

There are several colors of folk poetry in Al-Hasakah governorate that express the various well-known poetry topics, and have weights and activations derived from the classical.

SANA's cultural reporter met with the poet Abdul Karim Al-Afidli, who writes various types of poetry, including Nabati poetry, to find out the style of this type, its history, its topics, and the ways in which it differs from the eloquent one.

Nabati poetry is the popular poetry deduced from the mother Arabic language, language, weights and seas, and the first mention of it was - according to what Al-Afidli explained - in the introduction to Ibn Khaldun. It is also poetry closest to the environment of the Arab tribes and the life of the Bedouins and the desert.

As for the seas of Nabati poetry, al-Afidli pointed out that it does not differ much from the seas of classical Arabic poetry, and it was deduced from them, but some of them took new names such as (the hybrid, the long, the rocky, the withdrawn and the crescent), indicating that the Nabati poetry is the closest color to the classical folk poetry, so his poems are understandable in All parts of the Arab world, and despite the fact that classical Arabic remains the basis, popular poetry remains a parallel pattern to it, with its mass and popular base.

As for the colors of folk poetry, al-Afidli believes that folk poetry in our region has two schools: the Najd school, which specializes in Nabati poetry and what is related to it, and the Euphrates school, which is concerned with the colors of lyrical poetry, which are dominated by the character of the song and subject to change and change in its content, while the Nabati was distinguished by the poem that remained constant. It is full of the heritage of all tribes and preserves its history, days, exploits and events.

Al-Afidli pointed out that the Syrian Jazira tribes were distinguished by the colors of Euphrates folk poetry. For example, the Jabour tribe was famous for its Ataba, the Ubaid tribe for the Nile, and the Afdalah for the Mulia. The texts of their poems were a rich material for many beautiful songs sung by Iraqi artists, and sung by the able artist Samira Tawfiq. Nabati poetry, the Shammar tribe was famous for it.

Al-Afidli concluded by saying: “The most beautiful presence of classical poetry and classical poetry remains, because it is the umbrella for everyone who utters the antidote, but the importance of popular poetry cannot be overlooked, and it cannot be dispensed with, as it is the image that reflects the details of our lives, dialects, and our interactions today. “.

Nizar Hassan

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