이집트 현대아랍시에 나타난 도시의 이미지에 관한 연구: 심장없는 도시를 중심으로

Abstract

There can be no doubt that the image of the city in modern Egyptian poetry became the main theme, and started to play an important rhetoric role in poetic works during the Second World War period. As a result of the war, changes in the Arab world occurred not only in politics, economics, society and history, but also in literature. In the classical texts, such as those of Shawqi or Hafiz Ibraheem, the city was just the background, giving real historical meaning to the poem. It was a testimony of the relation between the poet and history on one side, and nature, the country, and the people on the other. In the romantic texts of Najy, Abou Shadi, and Mahmoud Hassan Ismaiel, it was an ugly and bad place compared with the beauty and the pureness of the countryside, but yet it was not the main theme in these poems. The romantic sorrow, nostalgia, vague metaphysical doubts and yearns, the sense of mystery in the universe, the idealization of women and love all became the common themes. With the realism of poetry from writers such as Hijazi, we can find in his first anthology “City without heart” that he has two views of the city. The first was a rejection of the city, hating everything that belongs to it. There were feelings of loneliness and unfamiliarity with its people, and a yearning to return to his village and be with the people there. The second was the development of a compromise with the city. The poet felt real love, with a woman, and with the country itself, so he started to accept the city, and through his growing acceptance, he managed to see the good side of the city alongside the bad.