The aesthetics of simile images in the Diwan of Ibni Maʽtūgh
Abstract
Sayyid Shehab al-Din Ahmad bin Naser bni Maʽtūgh al-Huwaizi was a famous Shiite poet and pioneer of committed literature in the early twelfth century. He invented the art of heading in Arabic poetry, which qualified him to take the lead in the coup against the seas of Hebron. And “the verses” are prose passages that he used in an independent content and a certain solid style to highlight his energy in the field of prose, Also, for Ibn Maatuq, a diwana included four thousand houses that his son had collected on the order of Mr. Ali Khan after his death, and they were arranged into three chapters. The colors of his poetry have varied in this divan, which proves his mastery of the loan and the purposes of Arabic poetry of all kinds, but he prolonged his stay at the purpose of praise. And photography is those structures in which the poet or the writer empties his thoughts and wanders in his mind, and the analogy in its aesthetic concept is one of the methods of depiction that reveals the truth about the poet’s emotional or artistic position, which he suffered during the creative process. This pattern of painting by moving from one thing to another increases the poet’s creativity in beauty and splendor, and the simile also plays a greater role in building the poetic image and completing the artistic painting. It is among the rhetorical images, one of the most important to the critic and rhetoric in the old and the modern, because it increases the image clarity and gives it confirmation and brings the meaning to the mind when it embodies it in an almost perceptible or touching embodiment. Ibni Maʽtūgh used it in his Diwan as one of the graphic arts and colored it with his poetic paintings, tracing in this the trace of many poets of his time who were fond of innovating industries, but his poetry is distinguished from the poetry of others, by moving away from the sophistication and ambiguity that were pop
