Nostalgia in the poetry of Ibn Nobateh Al-Mesri

Nostalgia or homesickness is to regret for the past and feel foreign and detest about the present realities. This term has entered to literature and art from psychology and in literature it is defined as an unconscious mood which happens to poet or writer. Ibn Nobateh (768-686), the proud of Egyptian poets, lived far from his hometown, Sham, for many years, so Nostalgia is one of the main themes in his poets. He expresses his regret for the past and the homesickness, which results from that, by lingual tools and different poetical pictures and also attempts to free himself from his undesirable present situation through finding a substitution. His psychological reaction against this nostalgia often appears through remembering the sweet times with his beloved, complaining about his senility years, homesickness, the loss of his loved ones, memories with his friends and family, archaism and social isolation. In the Present paper, it has been attempted to, first, clear the relationship among Nostalgia, psychology and Romanticism and second, to analyze the contents and components of Nostalgia in the poem collection of this Arab poet.