Description of prison and internal states in Persian and Arabic prison poems

Habsyeh (prison poetry), is considered an important branch of lyric literature. Habsyeh is the expression and shout glory and grief of the poet in the mourning of his freedom; in other words, it is the all view mirror of the repression and bitter days of his imprisonment. In the history of Persian and Arabic literature, many poets have been sent to prison (for various reasons such as political, religious, believing,etc) and have felt the taste of imprisonment and captivity and by their power of expression have recorded their sorrowful and difficult moments. Because of their special nature, Persian and Arabic prison poems need to be closely investigated of the various aspects such as concepts, descriptions, images, and literary elements. This article investigates apparent description of prison and internal states in Persian and Arabic prison poems. In such poems, the poet, in addition to the apparent descriptions of jail (chains, prisoners, guards, etc.) brings lines and describes his own internal feelings in which he talks of his innocence, freedom, memory, grief, etc. Therefore,, the writer in this article aims to investigate descriptive themes in Persian and Arabic prison poems that can be examined form two prespectives(apparent description of prison and internal states), so that this literary aspect of prison poems appears in Persian and Arabic literature.