Representations of Expressive Realism in The Poetry of Kaab bin Malik Al-Ansari (50 or 51 AH.)

This research aims to reveal the representations of expressive realism in the poetry of the Islamic poet Kaab Ibn Malik Al-Ansari. It shows the state of mixing between what is realistic and what is expressive in the linguistic units of his poetic texts. On the one hand, it manifests the style in which the poet invested the various elements of reality in a way that the poet himself became a witness to the images of that reality. On the other hand, how the poetry became a means of expressing the poet’s emotions and buried feelings. The aims also exhibit the emphasis of representations of a new reality that the researcher believes that such representations have not studied nor previously referred to in the ancient Arabic poetry in general nor the poet’s poetry in particular.The poet’s work revealed his expressive ability in constructing creative texts. In his works, there was no language possibility that was left unemployed to convey the poetic messages. The words were chosen in a way that made the reader think that the poet lived the emotional moment that overflew with different expressions. There were no empty words ,that is to say, words were full of the nature of the situation or the event in a way that the meanings were hard or impossible to be conveyed without them. Hence, ancient Arabic poetry in general and Kaab’s in particular is not just a realistic, but it is an expressive and realistic simultaneously.