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This study deals with captivity and imprisonment poetry in the Abbasside Age ? a very important and interesting topic that attracts the reader and motivates him/her to examine and analyse it. This study aims to resurrect this poetic experience from the sepulcher of composed books and poetic volumes into life, fresh air, plenty, and attentive ears that listen to it, care about it, and which, in turn, will examine and attract the attention of researchers and scholars alike; it is a topic indeed worthy of study and analyses. This study is composed of three chapters. The first one deals with the reasons and motives that forced the poet into imprisonment and captivity including Zandaqa and playfulness. This chapter discusses the main themes and subjects that the poets communicate in their poems including arousing pity and compassion, description, and yearning among others. The second chapter examines the visions and attitudes of the poets in several issues such as God, human nature, etc. Poets, captives, and prisoners had new and different attitudes from those they would?ve had if they were free. The third chapter is dedicated to examining the aesthetic formation in Imprisonment and Captivity poetry in the Abbasside Age, an aesthetic analytical study which covers the style of this type of poetry as manifested by the use of word decorations such as anti-thesis, and non-informative phrases (i.e. inquiry, order, repetition, swearing) and examining the artistic image and the extent to which the examined poet was successful in describing his condition and status hoping to communicate his image as he wished to the recipient. The music of the poetry, both internal and external, was also examined including verses and meters. The most common meters in this type of poetry were examined, and I found out that the Taweel meter is the most used. The study also deals with verses, and decides which are the most common in this poetry, and it turned out that the ?B? verse is the most common. The third chapter ends up with the discussion of the language of this type of Abbasside poetry in terms of diction and the meaning of the chosen words and their propriety to each other and the extent of success the poet reached in using words that serve his intended meanings. The study ends up with concluding results which can be summed up as follows: The imprisonment and captivity predicament formed a different experience and a new life for the Abbasside poet. The poet tried in his poetry to assure the addressee and to make him/her aware that the poet does not feel the troubles and the pains, but rather, he is more comfortable and assured than ever he used to be while free. Hence, the Abbasside poet sublimates his worries and pains which afflicted him no matter how hard and severe. Nevertheless, he tries, in most cases, to communicate the opposite in his poems. The study also concludes that the development and prosperity of the Abbasside period was one of the main reasons that pushed poets to a playful, lustful way of life, and consequently, they deserved to be jailed. Consequently, the subject matter of their poems tended to be asking for forgiveness and deliverance from their sufferings. The study also concludes that the visions of the poets were specific and clear; the poet was frank and honest in specifying the addressee in his poems and accurate in depicting an image of himself in jail and captivity which was restricted by time and space limitations. In the aesthetic formation, the poet tried to innovate in the composition of his captivity and imprisonment poems to introduce a clear and honest experience declaring his passions and emotions through them. To the poet, this experience, though temporal, is cruel, and hence, he can not be hypocritical and artificial about it. The poets, hence, used word decorations, a myriad of artistic styles, and honest artistic visions flowing with emotions and depicting the conditions in which they lived within the walls of the prison and in the alienation of captivity. The musical form of this type of poetry is manifested in the verse, rhythm and meter of these poems. Finally, the study concludes with a discussion of the language in which the poet formed his aesthetic experience and introduced it to the reader in terms of diction and meanings which the poet composed without any strenuous effort or artificiality, as the severity of his predicament was enough to make him compose his poems without any extra effort. Nevertheless, his poems came out clear, easy, and skillfully crafted ? a matter that reveals their true feelings and intentions, as all he intends from such poems is the catharsis of his worries and anxieties and self-relief. The researcher recommends the continuation of studying this type of literature, the visions and aesthetics it includes. Arabic literature is burdened with a legacy of this predicament in both prose and verse. However, this legacy needs revelation, examination and aesthetic formation