Employing the Euphrates River to denote strength in Abbasid poetry

Abstract

     The poets of the Abbasid era employ the Euphrates River to download the meaning of power in many ways, including: the methods of statement, the use of symbols such as the days of the Arabs, personalities and historical events, as well as the employment of the place of the event itself. Noodles in which he employed Euphrates to denote strength, including praise, which is most of it, including pride, satire, and even spinning. A number of poets have also emerged in employing the Euphrates River to denote strength, including al-Buhturi and al-Mutanabbi. The images in which the Euphrates is used to denote strength are often characterized by movement and exaggeration; Because it depends on the event.