نشيد القلب في مواجيد الألم ومراقي الأمل في الشعر العربي الحديث

The Heart’s Hymn in the Sorrows of Pain and the Ascents of Hope in Modern Arabic Poetry

Abstract

This research paper encompasses The Heart’s Hymn in the Sorrows of Pain and the Ascents of Hope in Modern Arabic Poetry. This study explores this duality, examining how poets transform personal and collective sorrow into a contemplative journey toward transcendence and hope. This research adopts a critical literary analytical approach, enriched by symbolic and Sufi interpretive dimensions. It conducts a close reading of selected poems by prominent figures—Hafez Ibrahim, Abu al-Qasim al-Shabbi, and Abdul Rahman Shukri—focusing on their use of symbolism, musical structure, and emotional language within political, social, and emotional contexts. The analysis reveals that complaint in modern Arabic poetry is not a passive expression of suffering but an active, artistic process that intertwines with hope. This often elevates the poem to a form of divine address, infusing it with Sufi overtones where lament becomes supplication and sorrow transforms into a spiritual ascent toward justice and truth. The study concludes that complaint, as an artistic act, carries deep philosophical and aesthetic significance. It suggests that this framework offers a valuable lens for re-evaluating other modern Arab poets, highlighting poetry's enduring role as a channel for processing existential anxiety and aspiring toward spiritual and societal hope.