Linguistic architecture and musical elements of "Children's Divan" by Suleiman Al-Eisa according to the approach of formalism

Introduction: Music is a powerful tool that, if used correctly, can help develop personality, increase learning, and improve a person's cultural and social level. It can stimulate a person's creativity and increase their concentration in educational processes, strengthen the listening, memory, and analytical abilities of humans, especially children, and convey moral and educational stories and messages, and strengthen social and moral values in the mind. Music is created through language, architecture, and word arrangement through meter, rhyme, and expressive and original refinements, and has a great impact on the soul. Music is one of the essential elements for formalists, who pay special attention to it in examining the text; because it is a type of form that they examine through highlighting, non-normativity, literaryity, etc. to show the difference of a musical text through the destruction of the norm; Because they pay attention to the transformation in the form of common and ordinary language and the literary industries that lead to the prominence of the literary text, and they analyze the linguistic characteristics of the texts, the constituent parts of a work, the connection between these parts, and the relationships of succession and association. When creating literary works, the poet treats language in such a way that he uses words in the best way, like an architect who, when building a building, decorates it with the correct application of his unique construction tools and architecture, and the person who observes the building enjoys its beauty; hence, the beauty of a literary work is also in the linguistic architecture and the way of arranging words and the unity and proportion of its words with meanings. Children's poetry is formed based on the music of words and sounds and is a tool for his struggle and movement, and it has factors such as emotion, music, imagination, and original arrangements. Al-Issa is one of the poets of children's literature who composes poems using original arrangements and linguistic architecture that suits the spirit and thoughts of the child.

The necessity of conducting the research is how Al-Issa, with his linguistic architecture in "Children's Court" and its uplifting and inspiring music, affects the audience and how they enjoy receiving the linguistic beauty of this work.

Methodology: This research aims to use a descriptive-analytical method and rely on a formalist approach to examine the effect of music through linguistic architecture on children's emotions and upbringing in "Children's Court" by al-Issa, in order to answer the following questions:

1. What are the most important musical elements used in "Children's Court" by al-Issa according to the formalist approach?

2. What is the most frequently used bahr used in "Children's Court" by al-Issa?

Result and Discussion: The beauty of form and linguistic architecture of Al-Isa’s “Divan Al-Atfal” has a great impact on the soul and mind of the child. Al-Isa invites children to live and move through balance music to move away from a monotonous life. The most prominent artistic devices used in “Children’s Poetry” include repetition, consideration of the like, contradition, symmetry. Repiition in his poems is used with the aim of creating pleasant and beautiful music, encouraging the audience to linger, and ultimately better conveying concepts and meanings to the reader. Repetition in “Children’s Poetry” has a high frequency, such that its use has become one of the stylistic features in Al-Issa’s poems. By using this technique, the poet has been able to create a strong bond between his poems and the audience. The findings of the research show that the beauty of form and linguistic architecture in the words used in Al-Issa’s poetry has a tremendous impact on the souls and minds of children and causes their cheerfulness and liveliness. Puns, repetition, contrast and consideration of the same are among the most important elements used in “Divan Al-Atfal.” The poet, with his expressive ability and linguistic skill, has been able to use foreign music and convey concepts well to the audience. Al-Issa has created unity and coherence in his poems through contrast. Puns express his creative taste and talent and play a significant role in creating inner music in “Divan Al-Atafal”. The arrangement and juxtaposition of words have made the words stand out in “Divan By juxtaposing compound words, Al-Issa visualizes meanings and images in the minds of children that are aligned with and deeply connected to the context of the speech.

Conclusion: Music is one of the essential elements for Sulayman al-Issa, who in his "Children's Court" used internal and external music through meter, rhyme, alliteration, repetition, tempo, consideration of the like, contrast, etc., using non-normativity and highlighting to avoid monotony and create freshness in the minds of the audience and create beauty. Among the poetic seas, al-Issa used more of the moderate, rajaz, raml and hajj seas and used less of the fast, long and relaxed seas; because the moderate, rajaz, raml and hajj seas are considered to be lively, fast and exciting seas and are more suitable for composing children's poetry. The use of these seas in al-Issa's poetry expresses the poet's ability to establish harmony and proportion between meter and content. By understanding the function of the music of the poetic seas, he was able to use them well to convey his emotions and feelings in accordance with the content of the poem.

In the rhyme of his poems, he used letters indicating softness, love and expansion, which express excitement, joy, heat; vitality, beauty and softness, and through them he created the background music in his poetry. Using beautiful and outstanding music, Al-Issa invites children to liveliness, movement and distance from a monotonous life. The most prominent musical artistic devices in "Children's Court" include puns, rhymes, repetition, etiquette and tabaq. The use of beautiful form in his poems is used with the aim of creating pleasant and beautiful music, encouraging the audience to linger, and ultimately better conveying concepts and meanings to the reader. By using repetition, the poet was able to create a strong bond between his poems and the audience.