The Systemic Relations Between Platonic Love and Cultural Madness: A Cultural Comparison Between Majnoon Layla and Majnoon Elsa

Abstract

The current study unveils the obscured aspects of Platonic Love Poetry where Arabic culture kept sancitifying it, though the cultural criticism describes the sanctity of the platonic love poetry and the Majnoon Layla Poet's claim that he is mad, as implied cultural patterns influenced Arabic and world culture. The French poet Lweis Arghon was influenced by poet Qais Ibn Al-Molawah; therefore, he calls himself Majnoon Elsa. Moreover, his collection of poetry was titled Majnoon Elsa. The study aims to unveil these patterns. Then, analyze them and draw a cultural comparison between both poets