The Grammatical Casting and its Applications in the Poetry of Abu Firas Al-Hamdani

Abstract

The study is entitled: grammatical casting in the poetry of Abu Firas Al-Hamdani. This type of casting includes the formal parts that constitute the major unit of the text, and the extent of its impact in achieving the textual connection, depending on the grammatical level, achieved by grammatical means, and these means according to most textualists: referral, substitution, deletion, and connection. Due to achieving the means of grammatical casting in the poetry of Abu Firas Al-Hamdani, the elements of the communicative process were available until it became a good material for textual study. Referencing Al-Hamdani’s collection is considered the mother of the chapter of grammatical casting. Pronouns are considered the mother of the chapter of referral. It is hard to find any of Abu Firas’s poems devoid of referral. With the pronoun, the greatest share in the texts is for the second-person pronouns, through which the character of dialogue was achieved. The grammatical casting methods show the extent of their importance, which combined with each other in constructing the text, achieving its textuality, understanding it, and assimilating it. Deletion, substitution, and linking recorded a remarkable presence, as they made a notable contribution to achieving linguistic wealth while preserving the integrity of the structure and the sobriety of meaning. Al-Hamdani adds in his verses the three types of deletion and substitution (nominal, actual, and sentence) so that they are more concise with no disrupting the meaning. The connection makes an effective contribution to the poetry of Abu Firas, as it formed an interconnected mix of form and meaning.