The Phenomenon of Suffering in Hassan bin Abdullah's Poetry Content Study

Abstract

Agony is considered a significant poetic phenomenon, especially in the modern era. Poets usually express their pain, suffering and sorrow in their poems. Thus, the main concern of this paper is to handle this phenomenon in the poetry of the Saudi poet, Hasan Ibn Abdullah Al Qurashi.

The study is intended to highlight the meaning of agony in the poetry of Al Qurashi through his textual thresholds as expressed in his titles, either those of poems or poetic collections. The meaning is also traced in the manifestation of agony in dedications of poems or collections. The study underlines agony in his hand-written introductions to his poetic collections and the openings and conclusions of his poems, in addition to collection covers and their illustrations.     

The study traces the causes and sources of personal agony like the death of the poet's father and mother, his first unsuccessful love story, his inner alienation, his despair, his resentment of being failed by some of his friends and the nightfall darkness around him alongside with his collective agony caused by the desperate circumstances of the Muslim and Arab worlds.

The study also highlights the poet's way of relief and escaping his agony through courtship and stressing the beauty of woman, trying to be more hopeful, praying to God, the Exalted, for relieving his cares and grief, in addition to patience as definitely God's relief comes after hardships.