Document Type : Research Paper
Authors
1 PhD student of Arabic, Department of Arabic Language and Literatur. Islamic Azad University of Science and Research of Tehran
2 Professor of Arabic, Department of Arabic Language and Literatur. Islamic Azad Universityof Science and Research of Tehran
3 Associate Professor, Department of Arabic Language and Literatur. Islamic Azad Universityof Science and Research of Tehran
Abstract
Nostalgia or feeling nostalgic is a term to convey a state of depression and regretting a past that one has lost at her or his present time. “Abū Firās Al-Hamedāni”, one of the 4th century poets, because of his special circumstances in his life’s period, was tended to this kind of poetry and in a romantic mood, escaping from hard conditions of life, he had took refuge to his pleasant past time. Therefore, a part of his poetries has been dedicated to nostalgic thoughts. Surveying this group of “Abū Firās’s” poetries, in addition to depiction of their literary – artistic beauties, more accurate recognition from his life, thought and life matters will achieve. This study is to define how different nostalgic themes were manifested in “Abū Firās’s” poetry with a descriptive – analytic method. Some of The results of this study reveal that the most outstanding poetries of “Abū Firās” with the theme of nostalgic grief and regretting the past are “Rūmiyāt”, which depicted his grief and sorrow of homesickness and his period of captivity. Also his personal failures and political – social disapprove, were other motivations that create nostalgic structure of his poetry.
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