توظيف معاني العسل في شعر الحب العربي القديم

Several pre-Islamic and early Islamic poets have the honey-scene in their poetry, using differently from poem to poem and with various function. In their literary texts, they do not compose long honey-scenes and avoid attaching much significance to them. In "The honey-scene and it's function in ancient Arabic love poetry," Ali Ahmad Husayn discusses the preliminary functions of the honey-scene in this poetry. He suggests that the first poet, according to the existent pre-Islamic poems in our hands, who created a full developed honey-scene was the mukhadram poet Sa'ida ibn Ju'ayya, al-Hudhali who lived near Mecca in West Arabia. From that time onwards the role of honey-scene in Arabic poetry became much more significant serving as a means to express the lover's longing and sometimes desire for his beloved. The motifs and the functions of the honey-scene in the love poetry of Sa'ida are analyzed in the present study in detail.