The Image of the Hero at Al-Mutanabbi’s Works A Critical Approach to the poem: "Everyone has from his Time what she/he is accustomed to"

Abstract

This study is concerned with clarifying the image of the hero in one of Al-Mutanabbi’s poems, which became famous and disseminated everywhere up to this day: "Everyone has from his Time what she/he is accustomed to". It emerges from a special philosophical conception of man, life and the universe and, thus, it transports his poetic attitude beyond the ordinary, as he frequently wanders between his poetic text, cultural practice, and philosophical practice.

The study presented the nature, movement and fields of this image of the hero through one of Al-Mutanabbi's most important poems in which his poetic and intellectual visions were manifested. This image – in this poem – has not had a precise extrapolation that reveals it and puts it on its appropriate path, although this image calls for itself in Al-Mutanabbi's poems, which reflects the importance of identifying it.

The study adopted the impressionist approach based on analysis and deduction as the goal is to identify the formation of that image and its literary specificity.

The study has come to a set of conclusions, the most important of which are:

- The prominence of the element of paradox through opposing binaries in a clear way, since the poem has had effective artistic elements, and the relation between the binaries and the image of the hero is a dynamic relation between the poet and the text, besides it reveals his artistic beauty.

- The image of the hero in the poem is characterized by exaggeration, as the poet made him not only superior, but also distinguished from others.

- The intensity of the image includes the actual power of the image of the hero and its prevalence throughout his poetic lexicon.