From Yemeni Diaspora Literature A poem of «Shikayat Al-Mutadhalim wa Nikayat Al-Muta›alim» Syntactic and Contextual Reading

Abstract

This poem is by the poet Amara Al-Yamani. it is of poetry: subjective/altruistic, political/social, and emotional multi emotional poetry in which we may find love and complaint, reproach and affection, affection and hatred, hope and despair, self and other, the past and the present. It is tightly relevant to the life of the poet and summarizes his past and present life. It also carries connotations of the shifting intellectual, ideological and political phases of the poet. In short, it shortens the life of the poet and translates for the time and place of his birth and emergence of his life, and grasps a little bit of the life of other people in an eloquent poetic way.
We stood on the details of that in our approach to this text, based on the two visions: the syntactic (internal) of the text, and the contextual (external taking advantage of both in reading its paintings; because the closure on the linguistic and structural syntactic aspect alone in such text (the occasion) is a reduction of the text and artistic work together, and the adoption of the contextual aspects alone will come out of the text of the literature to be a historical painting or a political document.