Memory in the poetry of Imru’ al-Qais

Abstract

Memory has been a major aspect in many fields of cognitive, psychological, philosophical, social, cultural and medical studies. It has greatly helped in understanding the human personality and knowing its tendencies and motivations by translating what it stores in its depths of ideas, visions, activities and functions. It then continued on its way to enter literary studies and poetry, especially because it played a big role in providing the poets with a huge stock of accumulations of events, situations and experiences that they choose as appropriate according to the poet's poetry talent and according to the impact of these events so that they are rooted in memory and become difficult to forget in transforming these attitudes and experiences entrenched in mind. They affected personality and remained stuck in his memory and dominated the centers of thinking and sensation into mature literary works and deep creative images.There is a close link between poetry and memory. Poetry has the ability to absorb the manifestations of memory because it is closely related to human emotions and feelings, which is a feature of memory. The basis of emotions and feelings is the ability to retain it and the poet can conjure it at any time he wants.The study found poetic cases that have long passed, but the memory is able to revive it. It can recover the past to maintain its permanence no matter how long it has passed, and here lies the importance of memory.Memory does not mean mere memories of a past and end time and can be retrieved in certain psychological and emotional conditions that include all the experiences of human consciousness. It also includes all the hypotheses that determine the treatment of the present. It reflects the past and the present and influences the future.The study consists of two topics, the first is the concept of memory and its mechanism of action and the reflection of its effectiveness on the poetry of the poet, while the second topic is large sum of the memory of the poet, such as (time, place, woman and tribe).