Discourse analysis of poetic language in “Siniyya” Buhturi and Shawki

The analysis of discourse is, necessarily, the analysis of language in use. As such, it cannot be restricted to the description of linguistic forms independent of the purposes or functions which those forms are designed to serve in human affairs. Discourse means to highlights the hidden motives that are wrapped in words and flowery language just to enhance and intensify the effect of the words. The aim of this article is to spotlight the hidden motive behind the Buhturi’s poem and Shawki. The researcher concluded through statistical stylistic study of two poems that there are between them similar features and other different. Similarity represented in use nominal sentence and verbal sentence, this is due to Shawki Influenced by the language of Abbasid era, thus his language resemble Buhturi’s language who belonged to that era. As we know Ahmed Shawki of the most important founders of Classicism in Arabic literature, which was concerned with everything that is old and trying to imitate it. In addition to, there is also a similarity in the use of statement and originative sentence in two poems, this is due to the subject of the two poem. But the difference appears in the use of the verb in the two poem, it is clear that Shawki has used the past tense more than the present tense to describe his emotional, he remained a prominent member of Arab literary culture until the British forced him into exile in southern Spain, Andalusia, in 1914. So he was deeply nostalgic for Egypt, and he remembered it in everything he saw, thus he preferred past tense to the present tense, because he loved everything that went on. However Buhturi didn’t care about the past, on the contrary, he is trying to escape from it, so we find the past tense comes in the same ratio the present tense.