The Poetic Journey from Beauty to Loss: A Syntactic-Semantic Study of Nizar Qabbani's Poem "Yad"

Abstract

This research demonstrates Nizar Qabbani’s poem “Yad” through syntactic and semantic structures analysis of the senten (Placeholder1)ces, to show the relationship between linguistic composition and poetic meaning. The research commences with a theoretical chapter reviewing the concept of the Arabic sentence among classical and modern grammarians, taking Sibawayh’s, al-Mubarrad’s, al-Zamakhshari’s, Ibn Hisham’s, and others’ view into consideration, as well as the controversy about the synonymy between the terms speech and sentence. It also discusses the categories of the sentence, demonstrating that the majority of grammarians accepted on categorizing them into only two types: nominal and verbal. The research then carries on to the applied section, analyzing the verses of the poem syntactically and semantically, explaining how the verses evolve from astonishment with beauty to tragic loss. The analysis shows a gradual emotional journey: from admiration and appreciation "your hand is worth a thousand kingdoms", to sacrifice and altruism "she has everything she desires", then to perplexity "what shall I say to a playful star?", culminating in the tragic conclusion "I am awake with a woman's white hand beside me". The research explains how syntactic structure and linguistic constructions assist the poetic vision and strengthen the philosophical connotations of the passage, highlighting the paradoxes of presence and absence, beauty and pain in Nizar Qabbani's poetry.