«وإذا البلابل أفصحت بلغاتها / فأنف البلابل باحتساء بلابل»
When the nightingales voice their language, the line turns through an echoing expression associated with cups and emotional disquiet.
The repeated sound of al-balābil plays on distinct contextual referents. The precise sense of each occurrence must be derived from its syntactic and poetic setting.
Phonetic identity alone does not mean the words have the same meaning.
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Radd al-ʿAjz ʿalā al-Ṣadr: Repetition, Paronomasia and Derivation in Prose and Poetry
«وإذا البلابل أفصحت بلغاتها / فأنف البلابل باحتساء بلابل»
When the nightingales voice their language, the line turns through an echoing expression associated with cups and emotional disquiet.
The repeated sound of al-balābil plays on distinct contextual referents. The precise sense of each occurrence must be derived from its syntactic and poetic setting.
Phonetic identity alone does not mean the words have the same meaning.