Sayed Qotb and Romantic Concepts in his Poems

Inclination to the romanticism has been more prevalent in the poems of Sayed Qotb, an Egyptian who was a poet and critic before turning into an Islamic thinker and interpreter. He could sketch a comprehensive system in his poetry in which the romantic features are the dominant ones along with eastern mysticism. The influence of the Romantic School of Aqqad as well as his own deep and emotional insight on universal existence could incline Qotb towards romanticism which is reflected in his works. Love to nation and traditions, sense of spiritual loneliness along with interest in nature, love and lyrics, imagination, opposition to obsolete social habits, appraisal of freedom, and feeling the pain of others are among the main romantic characteristics in the poems of Sayed Qotb. In most of these, spiritual forces are dominant in a way that the poet links himself to the universe. With descriptive- analytic methodology, the current article tried to study romantic aspects in the poems of Sayed Qotb.