Patience in the poetry of Hudba bin Al-Khashram Al-Athari

Abstract

Hudba Bin Al-Khashrim (died 57A.H.) was one of the poets who were imprisoned and suffered this experience. These emotions were evident in his poetry were his attitudes were contradicted between hope and despair. In addition, other features were evident in his poetry like patience and bravery. He survived many hard feelings that overwhelmed him. Therefore the images in his poetry varied affected by the different experiences that he went through in his life like the prison, losing his wife, losing his parents, turning from wealth to poverty and etc.). in spite of these sufferings but he remained strong till the last day of his life.