The ego and the other (Al-Sanawbari’s relationship with time, as in his poetry)

Abstract

This study, entitled “The Ego and the Other” dealt with the relationship of eternity with Al-Sanawbari as it appeared in his poetry. Al-Sanawbari  had a vision that he derived from the poets who preceded his era, as it is summed up in that this age is an unseen authority that accompanies man throughout his life. This vision appeared with the other (Eternity) in much of al-Sanawbari's poetry, so that when his vision came true after the death of his daughter, he was alarmed by her death and did not wait patiently, for he knew what would happen to him when he grew up; Because he was extravagant in pleasures, amusement and promiscuity in his youth, but he did not expect this catastrophe and this treachery from time at its end.

      The study used the analytical descriptive approach to reveal his doctrine in his life, and also benefited from the psychological approach that casts shadows on his psychological state through his poetry.

The study concluded that his anxiety came to hold himself responsible for what happened. Because he persisted in his promiscuity and amusement in his youth, so time punished him as much as he snatched happiness in order to make him taste of pain and torment equal to happiness and pleasure in his youth. To show his anxiety and impatience as an inevitable and natural result of not anticipating the greatness of the calamity.