Scenery in Contemporary Arabic Poetry Siddique Atia Siddique’s Trees of Sorrow as an Example

The Arabic poetry, through its long history, underwent a series of transformations. These included in the first place the commitment of poets to the stability of the rhythm and the molding of the form. That was followed by the development of poetry based on poetic feet which reflected the cultural and aesthetic transformations in the Arab reality. It was characterized by the repetition of a number of feet with considering the numbers of feet in each line.Then came the prose poem (written like prose, in paragraphs than verse) which was characterized by the decline of the rhythm and the aesthetic formbut preserving poetic qualities such as heightened imagery, parataxis and emotional effects.This kind of poetry may have led to the development of narrative poetry although it is always suggested that narrative poetry was born with the Arabic poem since its inception. It can be even claimed that the narrative has always been a basic component in poetry construction.
In the modern age, and after the development of other literary genres, such as the drama, novel, and other visual arts such as cinema, the interaction of the contemporary poem with these arts witnessed the emergence and development of new literary genres and made them tend to dramatization and the scenery construction as representation and manifestation of our contemporary life with its contradictions and conflicts. Contemporary poetry, thus, reflects the conflicting and confusing views and thoughts of the poets.
Scenery in the contemporary poetry is not merely an ornament, but is a fundamental transformation in its construction and functions according to the transformation of the age itself, where contemporary poetsare more knowledgeable, and their ideas and feelings more complicated and sophisticated. In this way, the conventional construction of the lyric poemsby single voices is no longer appropriate for conveying and communicating poets’ modern artistic messages.
This study is based on the investigation of the representation of scenery in Siddique Atia Siddique’s Trees of Sorrow. The study addresses the following conceptions: (1) the dramatic construction of the contemporary poem, (2) narration and scenery in poetry, (3) narration and its new gaps, (4) and the use of poetry sound effects. Finally, a summary of the most important results and findings, followed by a list of sources and references are provided.