ARABIC-L: LIT: Spanish Poetry Questions.

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1) Subject: Spanish Poetry Questions.

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Date: 22 Jan 1999
From: djust at netvision.net.il
Subject: Spanish Poetry Questions.

1.  The Jewish poets of Medieval Spain frequently make a big
point in their poetry about wine-drinking, often in gardens.
Though some of them lived also in Christian Spain, most of them
belonged more to an Arabic/Islamic background.  Where would
they have found the prototypes for such poems, or such
behavior?
2.  R. Yehuda HaLevi starts out a poem (apparently addressing
the soul):
You who sleeps in the bosom of childhood, until when will you lie?
Know that youth is shaken off like sawdust!
Until when are the days of black hair?...
Vaguely reminiscent of the ubi sunt poems later popular farther
north.  Where would he have found a prototype in 10th-11th c.
Spain?

Thank you.
David Jonathan Justman

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