خداداد بحری

The elegy is one of the prominent object in Arab’s poetical works,and we find rarly the poet who doesn’t compose the elegy. Mahmud sami al-Barudi, the Arab’s famous poet and the pioneer in contemporary poem, is one of the proficient poet in composing the elegy. He has composed a lot of his elegies in the sevsnteen years of his exile. This research, with descriptive, analytic method and with reliance on statistical method, tries to study Barudis elegies. This research, after a glance on the poet’s life and the polotical, social problem influence on his life, has studied the contents and the style of his elegis .it has also studied the effects of exile on his life and after that, it has studied two elegies which he he composed before and after exile. The results of this research are shown that although Barudi has composed a lot of his poems according to the ancients method and style, but he added some new contents to his poems. The poet's elegies result from the his truthful pain and feeling, so you can not see any complexity in his poems. This pain, sadnees and pure feelings are so clear in the elegy which he has composed for his wife and this feature is one of the most important subject in this elegy.