The temporal structure in the poetry of Ibn al-Abbar al-Balansi

Time is of great importance in literary work, and the poet Ibn al-Abbars experience crystallizes in the present through his confrontation with his pains and lost aspirations, and this moment becomes the standard by which he judges what came before and what will come. In light of the pain and disappointment he experiences, the poet finds himself unable to adapt to his lived reality, which prompts him to drift behind the past, which preserves for him an ideal image of happiness and reassurance, as the poet sees it as a reference to what his present should have been. While he contemplates his miserable reality, an endless comparison emerges before him between a lost dream and an opportunity that has ended, which feeds his feelings of helplessness and sadness. The duality of past and present appears between a previous stage that the poet lived through and remained stuck in his memory and a later stage. It is natural that people in general and poets in particular do not look at events and facts at the time, but rather recall them at a later time in their lives, since these events affected his soul and pushed him to take positions. The poet constantly recalls his past and tries to return to it because he finds in it an outlet. Positive and negative time also appear in the poet when he deals with an issue or event, and this stems from its effect on him, as the emotional and psychological state of the creator is closely linked to his literary production. The poets expression often stems from his vision of the things and circumstances he faces, to depict his psychological state through his poetry, and take a position based on that. Therefore, the temporal structure, with its transformations and connotations, plays an important and distinctive role in revealing and clarifying the poets psychological state.