Saud Al-Samrah

Saudi poet and storyteller

In the poem of the guest attributed to Al-Hutay'ah, the poetic quality of the text appears in a story template in which many dimensions of the narration of place, time, man and tense psychological feelings manifest as a result of multiple motives and themes in interconnected dramatic scenes, a feature of man's eternal struggle with nature and its transformations and the connection of these changes with the place and what the time hides of an irregular process connected on the one hand by an umbilical cord with fate and on the other hand with a haphazard reality of event without leaving any chance for reason to expect, for it is molded on surprise and ambush. Despite that, there are always indicators by which things can be measured within the limits of the reasonable and the perceptible, and the conception of things before they happen remains folded in the womb of the unseen far from the horizon of expectation..