The Functions of poetic Imagery in Ibn Hayos

This is an abstract of one of subjects from a Research entitled "The Poetic Imagery of Ibn Hayos" which was approved as a Master in the Arabic Language from Faculty of Arts, Zagazig University (1427 A.H., 2005 A.C.). The study is about one of the Poets of Fatimid Age called (Ibn Hayos 394 - 473 A.H.)
The researcher depended, in studying Ibn Hayos's poetry, on artistic method which based on rhetoric as well as other methods like descriptive method and historical one. The researcher concerned with studying the artistry of image and explaining the nature of artistic structure between the image and means & purposes. The researcher also pointed out the elements of image, its importance and function through Ibn Hayos's poetry.
The purpose of this subject is to show the role of the image in Ibn Hayos's poetry. The researcher classified the roles of the image to three functions:
** The aesthetic function: through which the meaning conveyed to make the reader enjoy artistically by using personification, concretization, hyperbole and the artistic pleasure itself.
** The social function: poetry played and still the role on the individual and social levels, and this was shown through the purposes of poetry e.g. eulogy, description, boasting …etc.
** The referential function: the meaning is not stated directly, but it is hinted, and that is achieved through description, metonymy, innuendo, symbols…etc.
At the end of each function the researcher presents an evaluation by applying them on Ibn Hayos's Poetry and shows how the poet succeeded in achieving each function.      
The Researcher's Recommendations:
1-      Studying some obvious features in Ibn Hayos's Poetry such the effect of five senses on his poems, especially smell sense.
2-      Further concern with the poets of the Fatimid Age and the artistic study of their poems specially, Ibrahim Al-Hadrami (died in 475 A.H.), Abu Al-Maaly Al-Hiti (died in 479 A.H.), Ibn Abi Hasinah (died in 457 A.H.), Ibn Al-Khyaat (died in 507 A.H.) and Al Sherif Al Aqeely (died in 450 A.H.).