Al-Hais Bays Poetry Between Tradition and Renewal

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The Abbasid era witnessed distinction and a qualitative shift in various areas of life, and this development depended on several factors, including the transition of people from the Bedouin to the civilized city, from poverty to wealth, and from introversion to coexistence with various races, and these factors helped to keep up with this poetry The development and the tradition and innovation in it appeared to us.  As for the idea of ​​renewal, the poet is always eager to break out of the cycle of monotony, following, and imitation. The phenomenon of renewal in Arabic poetry is not recent and limited to contemporary modern poets. Rather, it is a civilizational phenomenon with roots in our poetic heritage. Differs from; For the aforementioned reasons, if renewal is a new innovation that has not been found before, then renewal came at all levels of the poem in terms of form, content or purpose, so renewal is considered a revolution against the old in order to replace it with something new. And our poet Hais Bays succeeded in imitation and renewal, so he did not leave the originality and originality of the poetry of the first poets, but rather you see his poetry as if it were from the pre-Islamic era, as we see the old tendency remained somewhat conservative, but this does not mean that he remained an imitator, rather he kept pace with the development taking place in his era and took the idea Renewal in his poetic production in terms of its themes and structures.