ALLOCUTION • E-FREE TRANSLATION.COM • Definition of Allocution

... subjective, and has never gotten beyond the first rude attempts at dramatic composition. Even in its lyrics, Arabic poetry is still more subjective than the Hebrew of the Bible. It falls generally into the form of an allocution, even where it is descriptive. It is the poet who speaks, and his personality pervades the whole poem. He describes nature as he finds it, with little of the imaginative, "in dim grand outlines of a picture which ...

— Library Of The World's Best Literature, Ancient And Modern, Vol. 2 • Charles Dudley Warner