الزوال و قلق الإنسان : رحلة و كشف قراءة في ديوان الزوال لسامي مهدي

Abstract EN

The poems of The Divan of Evanescence represent a unified poetic experience through which the poet seems following the idea of evanescencc and its manifestations in man and his surroundings.

This is accompanicd hy emotional, psychological and intellectual situations which influence on man and decide his particular way of dealing with evanescence, his awareness of it and his search for a liberation from its burden.

This experience has passed through three stages.

In the first stage there is a follow-up to the manifestations of evanescence which pervade the world.

This stage is represented by Poems of Evanescence and Poems of Cities in which the poet shows his deep suffering for the deconstruction of relations among things and of his relations with those around him.

In these poems, man of evanescence seems weak and disappointed before imminent transience, finding only fear, worryf loss of dreams and departure of dear ones.

Therefore, he is left in a state of psychological instability, and is possessed with insecurity and forlomness.

This state will push him towards calling back the past and apprehending the welfare of ancestors.

It is a state of emotional regression resulting from a human psychological stale of spiritual and existential banishment.

Sumerian Slates poems arc a witness to this stage.

The second stage is one of revelation* It comes at the end of The Poems of Ancestors.

In these poems, man of transience witnesses his failure in confronting or getting rid of that fearful giant(evanescence), He realizes that his mistake is not in his search for salvation, but in not thinking of it.

Man has been able here to admit his own evanescence and separate the limited world of physical man from the eternal world* Hence he begins to look for other ways of dealing with evanescence; his negative worry has also changed to an incentive worry to seize the opportunity and immortalize himself.

Thus he confronts evanescence through his deeds, not through false wishes* In the third stage, man becomes fully conscious of his confrontation with evanescence.

He invests his fear and worry to achieve what he wants and rebuild his life.

Poems like Wakefulness, Seihan and / saw what I Saw represent this stage.

They summarize the poet’s experience and his awareness of his own destiny.

This stage reveals man’s ways of confronting evanesccnce; such ways dominate the effects of evanescence.

This state has not been seen in Poems of Evanescence and Poems of Cities.

All the poems of the Divan assimilate the poetic experience of evanescence.

They are full of psychological, emotional and intellectual situations.

They portrait man’s worry and reaction to evanescence in a high poetical ness.