Psychological reactance in the poetry of Al-Farazdaq

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The psychological reactance is considered to be behavior against the others in case of losing freedom so it is a reaction of that feeling. The researcher dealt with this case in the poetry of Al-Farazdaq whose poems is highly styled and specifically to his wife Al-Nawar because he used this kind of poetry to resist his enemies. This case does not depend upon a specific stage and age if the power of the effected factors rises so the reactance would be powerful as well. Al-Farazdaq was well known in the usage of reactance against women

Finally these poems of reactance was filled with highly figurative rhetorical pictures.