المظاهر الأسطورية في الشعر الجاهلي - نماذج مختارة

Abstract

This research paper seeks to examine some of the legendary phenomena in pre-Islamic poetry through some selected models and reveal their artistic aesthetics, by relying on pre-Islamic poetry as it is considered a model of ancient Arabic poetry that preserved its primitiveness and innate nature, which made it a qualified subject for studies related to metology.

                        The study sheds light on the mythological dimensions and symbolic elements in the pre-Islamic poem, which are manifested in natural appearances with anthropological significance (hill, mountain, sun, earth, water...), and animal types with symbolic dimensions (camel, horse, horse, eagle, The snake...) and the religious manifestations that have a place in the thought of the pre-Islamic people and their outlook on life (flying, fortune-telling and fortune-telling, Owl and echo...), and the influence of the environment in maximizing the collective ego of the Arab person in a primitive period of his life.

           We begin our study by referring to the pillars and foundations of the mythological approach, then clarifying the aesthetics of the mythological dimensions in some selected poetic models of pre-Islamic poets (Al-A’sha, Imru’ Al-Qais, Labid bin Rabi’ah, Tarfa bin Al-Abd...)