OLD AGE AND YOUTH IN THE POETRY OF AL-SHARIFAIN AL-RADI AND ALMURTADA - COMPARATIVE ANALYTICAL STUDY

The Abbasid era was full of a group of creative poets, at the forefront of whom were the two Sharifs, Al-Radi and Al-Murtada.The beauty of their poetic images, the richness of their words, the strength of their compositions, and the novelty of their poetic subjects contributed in a major way to their possession of a prestigious position among the poets of the Abbasid era and a lofty status among its writers, in addition to the impact of their encyclopedic culture in raising the value of their creative production, and giving it the characteristics of distinction, uniqueness, and comprehensiveness.Among the important topics that appeared in the poetry of AlRadi was the topic of gray hair and youth, as this topic formed a prominent phenomenon in their poetry, to the point that Al-Sharif Al-Murtada devoted a book to it called (The Meteor on Gray Hair and Youth).The images of Al-Sharif Al-Radi seemed to be richer artistically and semantically than the images of Al-Sharif AlMurtada, in addition to the richness of his words, the strength of his compositions, and the magnificence of his style.The diversity of partial topics included under the phenomenon of gray hair and youth has an important effect on the diversity of poetic images and their openness to multiple semantic foci.