Nostalgia and Ustad Sulaiman Layeq

Abstract

Academician Sulaiman Layeq is one of the outstanding and famous writers and poets of the Pashto language and literature in contemporary period, who have a unique and revolutionary style in poetry and prose. As every poet and writer writes his works in relation to the past and future events of his life and environment, Layeq is also one of those poets who wrote his works in relation to the past and future environment and events of his life. In addition to other different topics, nostalgia or idealism has also dedicated most of his poems to itself, and in his each poems one wish is reflected. Nostalgia is a psychological term that found its way into literature too. Nostalgia which is called in Persian (idealism and regret in poetic form) this regret and past desire, reflected the background of the poet’s lives with suffocated feelings in their writings and presented to the readers. This study first focuses on the identification of nostalgia and two individual and general or collective sub-types of nostalgia, and then focuses on the sparks and clear examples of nostalgia in Layeq's poetry.