Complaining and Grief in Imru’ al-Qays’ Poetry An Analytical Psychological Study

This research aims to study the motives for grief and complaining according to Imru’ al-Qays’ poetry and their trends in his poetry, and to clarify the prominent meanings and contents revealed by the poet’s poetry of complaint, the psychological reflections of this poetry and its most important emotions and feelings.
To achieve the research objectives, the study is divided into two parts: The first section includes theoretical material; it defines the concept of grief and complaining, then clarifies the motives for grief and complaining in the poetry of Imru’ al-Qays. The second section talks about their trends in his poetry and analyzes poetic texts to reveal the poet’s suffering and how he revealed its depth in himself and his conscience. It also explains the psychological repercussions of this poetry.
The research concludes that Imru' al-Qais's complaint was generally the result of either psychological suffering or severe physical illness. The subject of complaint in his poetry had psychological repercussions that appeared, for example, in the dominance of feelings of sadness and anxiety, a feeling of weakness and brokenness, despair, and living in memories of the past.
That's why this poetry was an honest mirror that reflected the poet’s suffering in various stages in his life and called him to sadness, complaint and revelation in these poems. They preserved an important aspect of his life and expressed sincere human feelings that made him go beyond individual subjectivity to express human conscience in general.