Analysis of If
Written by :
Abdallah Mahdy Abdallah
Translated by :
Hassan Hegazy Hassan
( Egypt)
The girls fall madly around “The Bold". The festival became so crowded with those were wishing to be one of the beautiful belles. I started gathering all the information about “The Bold and the Beautiful” ladies but I failed to know what deserved all this autumnal fall.
I moved the TV pointer towards “The Bold and his beautiful ladies” leaving the main newsletter I always tight to watch. All that distinguishes “The Bold” is those cold kisses for his fans and artificial sexual acrobats for them. After few episodes, I got bored of “The Bold and his beautiful ladies”, I moved my TV pointer to my beloved, the main bulletin, my keenness on watching it “ what "Al-Sharif" declared in a new form for it, created by a group of the news sector, and it was surprising that it contained several scenes.
The first scene
Crowds of different groups of people, began to rupture the child, "Muhammad Al-Durra," and (Nizar Qabbani ) whose vocal cords swelled from his loud shouting at them, the child was cut into pieces .
They went on beating Nizar who was shouting:
“The summary of the issue
Can be summarized in a phrase
We have worn the crust of the civilization
And the spirit is pagan (1)
The second scene
The various sects of the nation stood up with bowing heads, and one individual passed by them, spreading his left palm, slapping each of them on his (neck), and when each one of them felt the sting of the slap, he looked at him with a foolish smile except (Naguib Sorour) did not bend his head and cried in the crowd:
(Oh country, you don’t want to be disgusted of honey
Sitting in it
Sleeping in it
Living in it (2)
Everyone turned towards the shouting idiotically, mocking and laughing ..
The third scene
Small coffins sweep over the city, accompanied by the wailing of mothers and the crying of the mourners, (Kazem Al-Saher) comes out from among the mourners praising the “Mawal of Baghdad” and when he arrived in his intonation to:
(Baghdad, Oh ! The chant of bracelets and jewelry
O the store of light and spectra) (3)
The children came out of their coffins singing with "Kazem" ... The mourners were affected and all chanted:
(Before the sweet meeting ... You were my love
And will stay after I go) “4”
The Fourth scene
Various crowds were lying on the ground, and a stone cake (5) was put on the stomach of each of them, and (Najla) stood (6) and threw the stone cake away from its back and shouted :
-Where are you, Saber (7)?!
-Where are you?!
Tired, he replied among the crowds: Here.. Here, Naglaa.
She ran to him ... threw the cake and yelled at him :
- Wake up.. Wake up.
-What happened?
-The wolf will devour “Sarah”.
-Do not be afraid .. Do not be afraid.
-How?!
Sarah” got used to “suckling the milk of death” ... and he shouted in the crowd
“Sarah” was used to suckling the milk of death.
Attention.. Throw the stone cakes away from their stomachs.. They stood straight..
They shouted:
-"Sarah" used to suckle the milk of death.
I was impressed by this remarkable development of the newsletter, I felt a breakthrough, the next day I was ready to watch it, and it was as it was, and the first news of it was the dismissal of all the news sector, I switched off my television forever, and then I went back to reviving Al Samar councils in my village.
Margins:
1-The seventh volume from the poem “Margins on the Setback Book 1967 AD,” p. 5, “Nizar Qabbani Mukhtarat” April 7, 1999 AD, book in (Al-Ahram) newspaper .
2-From the play “Menen Ajeeb Nass”, Dar Al-Thaqafa Al-Jadidah, Cairo 1976 AD, by Naguib Sorour .
3- The Stone Cake” poem by Amal Dunqul, The Book of Exodus (The Song of the Stone Cake), p. 52: p. 59), The Family Library.
4-From “Mawal Baghdad” Nizar Qabbani, p. 10, book in the newspaper, Al-Ahram, April 7, 1999 AD.
4-Naglaa Muharram .. A storyteller with a collection of stories entitled (Awake).
Poet Dr. Saber Abdel-Dayem : His poem "Sara breastfeeds the milk of death”."5-
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101 10110 0101 01101 10 01110010101000111011010111101001110100100100101001001011111101110101 110111001010110010100110111111101000111110111001010010111011011110101100101111110110101100111101110101001111010101101100110101101101 011 111001110011100101011010111011111101101110110 11110101110 01001010 1110001 11101100010 0010110 0101 010011010111101010100111101111011111101111110110111111010101111111101001 11011111010110 1001 1001 1001 10101010010010010 011 1101100100100101011000101010111111010101001110011010100101 101011100100 10111010 010111110101101000100110 0101101011 0111011 011 1001010101001111101011110110101101111010 11110 111 101010101111 11111010111 1111 110 01101010 1110111101 1 101111001110110001 10111100111 0101011011110111 110 1011100111 11011101000100101011010111110111011111001111100101101101111100010011111010110100110 10 010101010101011111011101101110 10111111111101111 01110101101110001101111010010 111010111001011101 101001001001011001001 101101111010100111 |
Characters | 4,132 |
Words | 726 |
Sentences | 44 |
Stanzas | 14 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 1, 1, 7, 1, 6, 1, 6, 1, 4, 11, 1, 5, 2 |
Lines Amount | 52 |
Letters per line (avg) | 59 |
Words per line (avg) | 14 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 221 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 53 |
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