The Dynamism of Persuasion and Psychological Catharsis Mechanisms in Farazdaq's PoetryPoetic Exaggerations as a Model

The employment of psychological persuasion and evacuation mechanisms has a special status in the world literature. And Arabic literature - especially in the Umayyed era - is not an exception regarding this common psychological approach. Hence, these two psychological mechanisms have a high dynamic in the literature of this period. Farazdaq is an Umayyed poet who has masterfully utilized these two mechanisms to achieve his goals and objectives through poetic exaggerations. In this study, the authors aim to reveal Farazdaq's attempt in his poem to carry out the process of psychological revealing of his enemies or admirers, in order to use exaggeration in their persuasion and psychological evacuation through psychological analysis‚ and this method helps us to penetrate the poet’s subconscious by analyzing his poems to achieve his goals in this field. With the help of common principles of psychology, we explored the motivations that led Farazdaq to choose an array of exaggerations to persuade or psychologically drain his audience. This study showed that the audience's psychological reading has a strong support in Farazdaq's poetry, and based on this psychological reading, the poet has chosen exaggeration as an effective technique to persuade or empty the audience. We also became acquainted with an important part of the psychological current that governs Farzadaq's poetry and the motivations that led him to employ persuasion and psychological evacuation equipped by exaggeration, and we found psychological signs of these motivations.