A Critical Reading of Nostalgia in the Poetry of Fadwa Touqan

A Critical Reading of Nostalgia in the Poetry of Fadwa Touqan Nostalgia is one of the hot-debated issues in critical psychology which has been translated as the yearning or gloom in Persian. It is defined as the regret for the sweet past and the contrast of the present with the past. The feeling of alienation and being remote from the home, remembering death, the regret of childhood and youth, separation for the beloved, remembering the glorious era of history, desire for the ancient times, and the hope for Utopia are considered as its components. Fadwa Touqan, a contemporary poet of Arabic literature, has depicted some shapes and dimensions of sympathy, regret and anguish in her poems. Retying on nostalgic, this paper reflects upon love, Stay away from land and Death, Love of country, hope for Utopia and Mythology " and aims to explain each one's manifestations through a comparative perspective.