The eloquence of the question in the introductions, of the of reading in the dialogue of the absence and the presence of memory

Abstract

This research aims to study a prominent rhetorical phenomenon in ancient Arabic poetry, which is the opening of poems by question, whether the questioning is real or rhetorical, and the research does not see this phenomenon as a verbal enhancer only; but analyses it within deep textual strategies that involve the role of this method in highlighting the dialogue of absence and the presence of memory, by evoking the absent past, and showing the effect of memory in the formation of these introductions, as the poet turns the silent speech into the end of the axes using the question to break the silence of the place and its interrogation, through careful reading of selected models of ancient Arabic poetry.