Metaphor arts

"Metaphor" is an art closely related to the literary language. Indeed, Aristotle - twenty-five centuries ago - pointed out its importance and took it as a measure indicating the strength of talent and mastery of the poet. Likewise, literary criticism among the ancient Arabs turned to it, and it was considered the first of the wonderful arts. Metaphor was the basis of the attack on Abu Tammam''s poetry, due to the innovation that characterizes many of his metaphors, which contradicts the traditional Arab taste, which prefers to remain in a circle. "The adage."It is ambiguity that requires the application of thought and knowledge of logic and philosophy, and this philosophical ambiguity contradicts the origins of poetry as defined by ancient criticism in seven principles called "the pillar of poetry," and among them: the approach in simile, and the suitability of the borrowed from it to the borrowed for it. Indeed, the phrase of Al-Qadi Al-Jurjani in the beginning of his book : "Mediation between Al-Mutanabbi and his opponents," in which he defines the constants of Arab taste in poetry (and perhaps the first early reference to what was later called the poetry column) emphasizes the concern for clarity of meaning and the rejection of ambiguity. And vagueness, and this phrase says: "The Arabs used to differentiate between poets in terms of quality and beauty, based on the honor and correctness of the meaning, and the abundance and integrity of the pronunciation, and the precedence in it was given to the one who described and was correct, and the similarity and was close, and the one who appeared and was abundant, and to the one whose proverbs and stray verses were many, and did not bother with generalization and conformity. It is not full of creativity and metaphor if it has the poetry column and the Qarid system."