Euphoria in Andalusian Poetry: A Psycho-aesthetic Approach

Abstract

Euphoria - extreme happiness or ecstasy - is a state of feeling happy, excited, or feeling extremely well-being (a strong feeling of happiness) and losing awareness of what is around you to live a beautiful moment of longing for a feeling you have experienced; the poet expresses his inner self and feelings through poetry, the painter through paintings, and the composer through music, reaching the state of ecstasy and happiness that he strives to achieve through his production and creativity. The study aims to select diverse samples of poetic verses from different poets and eras to study the spiritual and emotional tendencies from which Sufism, pride, love, homeland, congratulations, longing, and life tendencies emerge, including victory, beauty, pride, dignity, gatherings of companionship, evidence, and journeys. In the current study, this phenomenon was followed using a descriptive and analytical approach that describes the poet’s state at euphoria, analyzes these verses, and describes their image at that state. The study reached a set of results. The most important thing is that Euphoria is present in all of life, and poetry is originally a moment of euphoria or nostalgia; when the poet is overcome by feelings of loss, longing, love and sadness, he wants to express himself in a moment of euphoria that takes him back to those moments, losing the sense of time and place, so he writes poetic verses to merge with the feeling with all his senses, addressing the moment that inspires the poet to write poetry on a certain subject.