Khalil Mutran's leadership and the preface to his diwan
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03Khalil Mutran's leadership and the preface to his diwan
- What Mutran did to develop Arabic poetry is acknowledged in the critical movement.
- He declared his poetic doctrine in the preface to the first part of his diwan in 1908.
Traits of poetry as he set them out
- Modern poetry that is proud to belong to its own time.
- Its maker is not a slave to the demands of metre and rhyme, so he does not say other than what he intends.
- In it the correct meaning is expressed by the eloquent word.
- The poet looks at the beauty of the whole poem in its structure, ordering and harmony of meanings, not only at the beauty of the single verse.
- It expresses free feeling and strives for precision of description.
His criticisms of those before him
- Turning away from the self and the feelings that occupy it.
- Caring for occasions and compliments at the expense of meaning, thought and feeling.
- No care for artistic unity: the poem was several disconnected units with no scheme and no organic or psychological system holding them together.
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