Phonetic System and Its Indications in Al- Motanabi’s Sayfiyyat and Koforiyyat

The linguistic sound system is considered the corner stone of poetry because of two reasons, namely: it creates its beauty and aesthetics and it includes a variety of sounds such as voiced, voiceless, fricative, explosive, sibilants and nasalized sounds. Besides, it reflects the pragmatic aspect of the script and the psychological status of the poet that the chosen sounds reflect whatever goes on in the mind of the poet. The latter highlights two issues, namely: delivering the message and the phonetic syllables which are organized in the poem in order to flavor it with nice and pure music. This study is inspired from phonetics to the extent that it tackles the phonetic aspect in Al. Motanaby’s poems to Saif Eldin (Al.Saifiat) and Kafor El. Ekhshedi (Al.Kaforyat). It highlights the aesthetic aspects of poetry and the relation between the nature of the life of the poet and his secrets’ indications and spiritual influence. It also talks about the diacritical marks including their characteristics and indications. In the second section, it studies the concept of phonetic significance according to the people in the past and nowadays and the disagreements amongst them about its reality. In the second and third chapter, the researcher moves on to talk about the phonetic significance in Al. Motanaby’s poems to Saif Eldin (Al.Saifiat) and Kafor El. Ekhshedi (Al.Kaforyat) in terms of the silent sounds’ significant characteristics such as being voiced, voiceless, dark, light, fricative, explosive and repetitive. The researcher, also, talks about the diacritical marks and their indications. Thus, the nature of the syllables in Al. Motanaby’s poetry in talking about the two princes is highly highlighted. In the fourth chapter, the researcher compares the natural silent sounds, diacritical marks and the syllabic nature in the chosen samples, which are Al. Motanaby’s poetry which was written for Saif Al. Dawla and Kafor.