الغَزَلُ في شِعرِ الوأواءِ الدِّمشقِيِّ

Abstract

This study approaches the theme of love in the al-Wa'wa' al-Dimashqi poetry in the Abbasid era. The researchers attempt to explain the theme of love in his poetry and show its implications and other related approaches. The researchers conclude that he was a love poet as most of his poetical works was about love. Furthermore, it is shown he was concerned with two different kinds of love poetry; the first is innocent love poetry where the poet portrays his love feelings and how love impacts himself; the second is sensual love poetry which could be either erotic where the poet narrates stories of explicit sexual relations with his beloved one or non-erotic where he only describes his beloved one and portrays her beauty with no explicit or insolent depiction of love affairs or sexual relations.