Öğretici Şiir: Doğuşu, Gelişimi ve Özellikleri
Didactic Poetry: Its Rising, Progressing And Characteristics

Summary/Abstract: Didactic poetries or what called as a didactic poems were considered as a new phenomenon in Abbasid age. That was because touch of Arabic culture other civilizations and owing to translating of their sciences and literature and its progressing because of effect of foreign cultures. The firs aim of didactic poetry was to make public the art and science among the people and to make academic texts easy to be learned by heart by students. That phenomenon, expanded till settling down entirely and covered all known sciences.Poets varied in didactic poetry writing. Some of them kept on certain characteristics and kept up the poetic luster, especially in prologs. The others turned the poetry into a meter that there hasn't been anything except likeness of pure poetry formally. Didactic poetry has advantage and disadvantage. Advantages are expanding of science and paving the way for scholarship. As for its disadvantages, one of them is its mixing with poetry and the other is putting it off. This quashed the concept of poetry and the image of Arabic poetry.

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