The Experience of Emotional Deprivation among Poets and Lovers in the Umayyad Era

Abstract

This study explores the experience of emotional deprivation among poets and lovers during the Umayyad era, focusing on both chaste (udhri) and satirical (ta‘ridi) love poetry. The research aims to analyze the manifestations of emotional deprivation in Umayyad poetic texts and to understand the rhetorical and psychological techniques employed by poets to depict loss and longing. The study reveals that emotional deprivation is not merely a feeling of sadness but represents a complex poetic structure where emotion, language, and artistic imagery are intertwined. Poets employ metaphor, repetition, and contrast to intensify the sense of deprivation. The research also indicates that chaste love poetry is more effective in portraying deep psychological deprivation compared to satirical love poetry, and that the experience of deprivation is closely linked to the self and social loss, making it a central focus for literary and psychological analysis.