The Child in Abbasid Poetry: Emotional Presence and Social Concern

Abstract

      This research addresses the image of the child in Abbasid poetry from a literary perspective, based on the hypothesis that the Abbasid poet was not isolated from the social and emotional reality surrounding children.          The research traces the emotional presence of the child in poetic texts, based on the hypothesis that the poet was not isolated from the social reality and the surroundings of its members. Therefore, the researcher was keen to interrogate Abbasid poetic texts.  Which embodied feelings of fatherhood, feelings of loss, or longing for childhood as a symbol of purity and clarity. The poet treated the child as a being of emotional value, and this was evident in the poetic imagery and expression of emotional situations in artistic ways that varied between elegy, nostalgia, description, advice, and even social criticism.