The effect of the context in determining the metaphor and directing its connotations In the Commentaries of the Office of Al-Mutanabi.

The study aims to demonstrate the reliance of the commentator Diwan al-Mutanabbi on the context in analyzing the poetic text, and to indicate the type of meaning and determine its significance by employing verbal and current clues in a manner appropriate to the maqam, as the phenomenon of metaphor constituted a prominent feature in the poetry of al-Mutanabi. Because he was known for his awareness of the arts of language and his tendency to ambiguous and closed words, and strange in meaning, and the use of expressions of multiple semantics, the vision of the commentator was evident in the analysis of the poems of al-Mutanabi and standing at his purposes. The capacity with which his texts were distinguished, opening the horizons for commentators to present multiple readings, based in reality the context and the capabilities it offered in directing the texts, and included a definition of the context and what it is, the emergence of the term, the limit of metaphor and a statement of its types; Standing on the most prominent citizen in Sharwah Al-Diwan. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]