Decoration in the Poems of Poet Awni

Abstract

This research is a step towards identifying the rhetoric science in the literature of Kurdish. The birth and existence of rhetoric science are evidenced in the classical poems and verses. Awni as a poem was born amid this literary school. That is why the name of this famous poet remains in the history of Kurdish literature immortally. Decorative science with its two categories is clearly and widely manifested in the poem collection of this great poet. I can say that there is no piece of the poet's poems without being rhetorically expressed. This in itself reflects the intelligence and capability of the poet who was successfully dominating in such arts. In addition, the poet was aware of past poet's poems before him and he was reading them, which made him to be competent and qualified in mastering this science. The poet, we can say, had invented in his peoms by integrating more than three arts in one line in his poems. In this discussion, we explain the two types of decoration namely, (lexical and semantic). Also, we mention more than twenty arts with the two categories and showed them with elegant and nice examples. At the end, I hope that I have served this great Kurdish poet, history of Kurdish literature and rhetoric science