The White Dome Journal

Abstract
This research aims to investigate and clarify the linguistic phenomena manifested in the poem "Rain Song" (Unshudat al-Matar) by Badr Shakir al-Sayyab, considering it a pivotal text in modern Arabic poetry. The study stems from the hypothesis that al-Sayyab did not merely shift the external structure of the poem but initiated a revolution within the "linguistic system" (phonological, syntactic, and semantic) to compensate for the absence of traditional prosodic forms. The study adopts a descriptive-analytical approach based on stylistic and linguistic tools. It is organized into two main sections: the first explores "Phonological Structure and Sequential Repetition," revealing the role of "phonemes" and systematic repetition in creating expressive internal music. The second section analyzes "Semantic and Syntactic Displacement," demonstrating how grammatical order was breached to serve the dramatic and mythological dimensions of the text.
The research concluded with several key findings: that repetition in al-Sayyab’s work acts as an architectural tool to achieve textual cohesion, and that syntactic displacement (fronting and delaying) was a means to focus significance on existential conflict zones (hunger/the homeland). Furthermore, the study proved that the language in "Rain Song" is an "organic" language in which phonological movement merges with semantic movement to depict the tragedy of resurrection and sacrifice.

Abstract:
The place appears in the collection “When Lamps Burn” to include aspects and experiences that open up to the ego’s special obsessions, where its experience is redrawn through texts inspired by the description of the realistic and psychological place that dominates memory.
In his texts, the poet employed this curve to depict the suffering and joys of the soul and reveal his thoughts and awareness through connotations that indicate the accumulations of the past, the burden of the present, and the feelings it opens in the self.