The Relationship Between Linguistic System and Poetic Fabric in Ibn Mushref Al-Ahsaee’s Poetry

Abstract

This study aims to investigate the relationship between the linguistic system and poetic creativity in Ibn Mushref Al-Ahsaee’s poetry. It seeks to shed light on this poet’s significance and the way he employs grammatical rules to serve semantic and musical harmony in his poems, highlighting the linguistic system in his poetry crafted in harmony with poetic rhythm and rhyme to enrich his texts, creating a syntax-poetry interface to achieve literary expression. Specific examples of Ibn Mushref's poetry were selected for this study, focusing on the significance of rhyme in his poetry and how it was employed for meter, rhythm, flexibile presentation, delay, and grammatical structure consideration. The results showed that Ibn Mushref as a poet demonstrated exceptional linguistic skills, using Arabic grammar flexibly to meet the requirements of poetic text. The linguistic phenomena in Ibn Mushref's poetry were not erratic violations but deliberate poetic necessities aimed at achieving specific meanings, whether musical or textual. It was also revealed that poet did not always adhere to grammatical rules, but used these deviations skillfully to achieve musical or moral purposes.