The Poetics of Dialogue in the Vision of Abu Firas Al-Hamdani

In ancient Arabic poetry, dialogue is an artistic technique that adds a narrative feature to its poetic texts. Its methods and formulas have varied in these poetic texts, given that dialogue raises the curtain on the positions, feelings, and secrets of the interlocutors, their ideas, and their experiences, whatever their type. Poets have used dialogue in their poems for various poetic purposes and topics since the pre-Islamic era, and this continued until the Abbasid era and beyond. Its methods and characteristics developed, and it became a means for the poet to express his feelings that he refuses to express directly, which added to the poetic texts. An aesthetic dimension and depth of ideas. This research paper aims to reveal the poetics of dialogue in Abu Firas Al-Hamdani’s novel. This dialogue contributed to highlighting the internal conflict that the poet is experiencing, and what is on his mind, and we will present examples of that dialogue, and analyze them from an objective and artistic perspective, with the aim of revealing the methods of dialogue in them and its artistic characteristics, according to the following elements: 1- The concept of poetics. 2- The concept of dialogue and its types. 3- Manifestations of dialogue and its forms in the vision of Abu Firas Al-Hamdani. 4- The functions of dialogue in the opinion of Abu Firas Al-Hamdani