The dialectic of life and death in animal stories in ancient Arabic poetry – The semantic dimensions and the forms of presence in the image of the wild bull-

Abstract

This research paper deals with the problem of conflict, which embodies the position of the ancient Arab poet on the existential issue that has always haunted him, which is broadcast in the ancient Arabic poem. Then comes an attempt to read what this content of animal stories reveals about the dialectic of the struggle between life and death during the pre-Islamic era.

  Talking about the desert animal has formed a wide presence in pre-Islamic poetry, the poet has employed it as a likeness of the camel, and formulated poetic stories not only with the aim of storytelling, or achieving artistic pleasure, or revealing his knowledge of the world of the desert and animals, but it turned out that they are symbolic stories used by the poet to broadcast more of his philosophy related to the existential issue, and his position on annihilation and age, and the struggle of man and his struggle in life.