Image of woman in the poetry of Deek El Ginn

Abstract

Deek El-Ginn did not sing about women in his poetry in the manner of other poets, because the reasons for singing about them were limited to his suffering, which was caused by women, and increased until it reached its peak in the stages after the separation from his wife, who, despite the love he provided her and the peace and tranquility he allowed her, was only a path leading to his end. Based on those events, the contents of which are limited to two stages, this study divides Deek El-Ginn’s poetry, in which he depicted women and excelled in depicting them, into two sections: a section that praised women, and a section in which he complained about them. For each of these two sections, from which Deek El-Ginn built the image of women throughout his life and history, which is full of sad scenes with women, we stand on the significance of these images through the levels of their construction, and the limits of what they depicted for us of the harsh or soft nature of women in the poet’s view. The image is more capable of conveying the drama of the event than a mere phrase narrated by speech, provided that this is done by following the different positions that Deek El-Ginn took with regard to women, which can be summarized in three positions: the position of the loving lover, the position of the sad and distressed, and the position of the hating and hateful.