English abstract
This is another study in Omani literature aiming to focus on some of its features in order to show them up in an integrated criticism which may answer questions by searchers in Omani literature. The researcher is ambitious to deal by academic research a subject that has not been dealt with before. Thus it was the aesthetic figure in the works of a blind Omani poet. This study aims to study the effect of aesthetic figure in Al Habsy works regarding language, image, and rhythms. It also aims to extract the sources of aesthetic figures in his works as well as determine its elements and components. Further, one of the important objectives of this is to study the effect of blindness on the formation of aesthetic figure in his works starting from the psychological and emotional aspects and casting light on the aesthetic characteristics of the poetical figure in his works for explaining points of innovation and imitation on that figure. The methodology of the researcher for discovering characteristics of Al Habsy's poetical figures is the stylistic methodology assisted by the psychological methodology for explaining the psychological effects of blindness on the aesthetic figure in our poet's works. This study is divided into an introduction presenting the study's subject, objectives, methodology, and relevant previous studies which are categorized into three categories: the first is the studies which concerned about the aesthetic figure in the literal works of blind poets, the second is that concerned with the aesthetic figure in Omani poem, and the third category is the studies on Al Habsy's poem. In addition to the introduction, the study includes three chapters and conclusion. The first chapter carried the title of Aesthetic Figure: Definition, Components, and Importance. This chapter deals with the dictionary and traditional meaning of aesthetic figure. It also explains the repetition of this critical term in old and modern criticism books. The researcher has been keen to study the effect of the blindness on the aesthetic figure which is a basic point that assists understanding of how blindness helps blind poets in forming aesthetic figure, The second chapter carried the title of Sources of Figure in Al Habsy's Poem. The researcher attempted in this chapter to explore that sources and how Al Habsy employs them to create his poetical figures. These sources are man: ego and body, practical, spiritual, and mental life, role of nature, and portrait of animal in his works as he is well known that he employed the animals mentioned in Arabic poem such as horses, camels, gazelles, dogs and other animals. The researcher also touched Al Habsy's employment of history and famous characters which indicates his wide knowledge. Moreover, the research studied quotation in Al Habsy's works as it is part of forming his aesthetic image and this included quotation from Quran, Prophet's speech, Arabic poem and prose, The third chapter dealt with the building up of aesthetic figure in Al Habsy's poems. This chapter is very important as it focuses on an issue that makes the study clearer and more precise. The issue is how shall we study literal figures? The concept of literal figure is wide and has no clear limits. The researcher tried to answer this question basing on critics' opinions. This study is concluded by a chapter on the innovation and imitation in Al Habsy's poem, aiming to explore the aspects of modernism and imitation in Al Habsy's poem which represents an explicit model of the intellectual environment that prevailed Oman life at the end of Ya'areba Imams. Finally, it enlisted the results.
