The psychological vision in Al-Tughra’i’s poetry (513 AH)

Abstract

Vision in poetry is a reflection of the poet’s awareness and understanding of existence, and it is a tool for forming a special world in which he expresses himself and his experience. Accordingly, this research studies (Psychological Vision in the Poetry of Al-Tughra’i, d. 513 AH). He was an Abbasid poet who was able to express his vision in a sophisticated artistic language. He also presented visions that went beyond his era towards broader human horizons, and his vision belonged to the Abbasid and Seljuk Islamic civilization; It was influenced by the political and intellectual transformations at that time, and it presented a unique example of reality from the human perspective, and the interaction of the self with its surroundings, and reflected the level of his awareness and the depth of his feeling. The nature of the collected material required dividing the research into an introduction and two sections. The introduction dealt with the concept of psychological vision, while mentioning a brief overview of the poet’s life. The first section studied: vision and the self, and the second dealt with vision and the other. The research relied on the analytical approach.

His vision was not an end in itself, but a means to understand and transcend existence, and to achieve a kind of inner liberation from the constraints and defeats of reality. His vision stemmed from his awareness of humanity's place in the universe, and he used his poetry as a tool to express the crisis of the self in the face of challenges.