The Knight and the Poet
" Azellal d Urkkab " or "A debate between a Knight and a Poet" is an ancient Amazigh song by Rais Boubkr Anchad. He has succeeded in embodying the eternal conflict between the poet and the conventional man (or in using Plato’s cave allegory: Between an intellectual and ordinary caveman). The former observes the world from a celestial, rather than an ideal perspective. He is entranced by his reveries, he wonders and observes the universe with ardour and exultation. The poet is a person whose soul can be satiated by the exquisiteness of the cosmos, and is ardent enough to tread the labyrinths of satyr and consecrated passion. He sees in the daily occupations and delights of the ordinary people an odious fetter, and thus he is always chary of being overtaken by public opinion. A conventional man, however, is induced at a young age by society to believe that success lies in imitating and obeying, in servitude and in monotony. He yields to the social project of turn