The Rhetorical device of Metastasis in Ibn Alhaddad Alandalusi’s Eulogy

This study examines metastasis as a rhetorical device in the eulogy of the poet Ibn Alhaddad Alandalus who skillfully manages to move from one motif, i.e. love, to another, i.e. praise, within the same poem. The researcher has studied ten praise poems manifesting good transition from love to praise. The poems in which he praised Almo’tasem bin Somadeh, the King of Almeria, and Almuqtader bin Hood, the king of Saragotsa, exemplify his reliance on metastasis. Some of his poems open with one or two love verses for his beloved, the Christian Nouria, before eulogizing the honorable traits of Almo’tasem. Others, however, start as love poems before they eulogize and meditate over time changes. In his praise of Almuqtader bin Hood, the poet demonstrates his metastatic rhetorical skill by exploring time changes before moving to praise. To him, time brings about Almo’tasem's departure from his native city of Almeria to Saragosta.