Nostalgia in the poetry of Omar Baha’ al-Din al-Amiri (longing for the place, complaint about the world)

Abstract

This thesis focused on the expression of nostalgia in the contemporary poems as well as on its importance in constructing the meaning of the poems and articulating the inner struggles of the humanity. Nostalgia in this research is the basic emotional human constituents; their effect on psyche and biological of human being, this research brings to the fore a corpus of poems where selected poems epitomize the thematization of this construct. Nostalgia in contemporary poetry is not just a reminiscence of the past but rather an emotional nostalgia is an experience which exemplifies an identity crisis and memory. It is also worth noting that human feelings are intertwined with cultural and social construct, hence making nostalgia a notable poetic phenomenon of every exercised in reminiscence which poetry encompasses from the pre Islamic poems down to contemporary works. It is an emotional experience that reflects an identity and memory crisis. Humanity is within this sociologically constructed essence of reminiscence, making poetry a worthy phenomenon of every exercised in reminiscence. When a person reminisces on the past, to relive the hardships she encountered, she is not simply quarreling with time but rather resisting her fate, her inner self, a portion of her being which is subjugated to cruelty, injustice and oppression.

In the other hand, the present thesis highlights the importance of reawakening nostalgia in contemporary poetry, and how such sentiment can capture shared human experiences across time and space. This study advances the critical and psychological understanding of poetics and paves the way for fresh inquiry concerning the interrelationship between poetry and memory in the context of contemporary times.