The Modern Arabic Poetry between The Changes of Structure and The Social Transformations

The Second World War was the beginning of many changes in the Arab World on political, economic, and social levels. These changes have extended to include all aspects of life. It can even be said that the changes the Arab World has seen through the twentieth century are as equally huge as all the changes it has faced in all its old eras. Naturally, arts responded to these changes. This research tackles the dramatic changes in the structure of Arabic Poetry in form, which are an automatic response to forms of mobility which have hit the Arab World at the time. It monitors the close relationship between the social transformations and the changes in arts, especially Poetry. The research also tackles the new developments which urged the modern Arab poet to revolute on meter and rhyme and what can be summed up in the expression “columnar poetry”. Columnar poetry has dominated the structure of the Arabic poem through the old eras and it has never been affected. The only obvious change can be seen in the “Andalusian Muashah”. It represented an important rhythmic development which occurred when the Arabs moved from the Arabic Peninsula to Western Europe. This research observes the philosophy of the modern Arabic poet in writing against the traditional Arabic meters and the function of rhythm and form in poetry. It also tries to approach “the prose poem” which caused a lot of debates between critics and to study the phenomena of Abstraction and Experimentation in modern Arabic poetry.