Abstract

Rhetorical criticism is the conscious use of language in order to persuade the audience. This approach employs new structuralist and post-structural literary critiques and psychology, communications, sociology, and aesthetics. From this point of view, literary work attempts to persuade the audience with his words, and in this way he uses the tools of rhetoric and aesthetics. In this research, the Rony’s poem, which is a mourning for Andalusia, is examined from a rhetorical critique with an analytical descriptive method. In its content and form, the poet employs literary and rhetorical instruments to persuade and engage the audience to move him from being inactive and listening to participation and dynamism. In order to achieve this, Abu al-Balaqa uses diverse, verbal, rhetorical interpretations and rhetorical techniques to put the audience in a position to be part of his poetic experience