Nostalgia in the Poetry of M. Sereshk (Shafiee Kadkani)

One of the issues raised in the Psychological Review is «nostalgia»، sadness due to homesickness. The term means: feeling of homesickness and regret over the past and the things which are lost now and is usually associated with regret، sadness، and pain. This is manifested in most poems of the Persian lyric poets with a certain reflection in the contemporary poetry due to reasons such as political and social circumstances and life changes. This research is centered on nostalgia in the poetry of Mohammad Reza Shafiee Kadkani، and in the present paper we cover the definition and etymology of the word nostalgia، and its divisions and components. Then، related topics such as memory، nostalgia، utopia، archaism، myth، and the RomanticismSchool along with the comments made by researchers in this field are reviewed. In a general classification، in the poetry of Shafiee Kadkani nostalgia is divided into two groups: 1-past-oriented personal nostalgia 2- past-oriented mass nostalgia. In either of these categories، a number of factors including distance from home، being away from the beloved، returning to Childhood and youth as well as to the history and myth have been covered.