This article investigates two elegies belonging to two contemperory poets, Abu Dhuaib Al-Hodhali and malik Ibn Al-Rib Al- Tamimi. Content, imaginative forms, and eloquence of these two elegies have been investigated and analyzed.
Abu Dhuaib begins his poem with a current dialogue with his beloved, Omaimeh, as it was customary in Jaheliyyah and Islamic period. Elegies of Abu Dhuaib are personal, emotional and truthful, coming from heart. He adorns his poem with anecdotes and parables. His Elegy, however, doesnot possess that kind of the matic innovation which is found in Malik Ibn Al-Rib Al-Tamimi’s poem. That is, he has composed an Elegy for himself on his agony of death, in which he regrets a bout his diparture from his home town and land.
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