The Poetry of the Taghlib Tribe in the PreIslamic Era: A Study of Figurative Language and the Structure of Poetic Texts: The Tribe's Anthology as a Model

Abstract

A poem is an integrated structure comprised of several artistic elements that together form its complete form in all aspects, such as language, imagery, internal and external music, and the structure of the text. There must be perfect harmony among these elements for the text to be respectable, free from dissonance, flaws, and defects. The more cohesive the text, the better it is. Poetic imagery is one of the most important elements of a poetic text. Therefore, poets have paid great attention to its use. No artistic text exists without poetic imagery, nor can it endure without it. It is the pulse and lifeblood of poetry. Poets, especially in the pre-Islamic era, relied on specific devices to portray their feelings, the most important of which were simile, metaphor, and metonymy. All these elements or images require a poetic form within which they can be organized. Their poetry came in various structures, such as the orphan poem, the fragment, the stanza, and the poem in its two forms: the simple structure and the compound structure. This is due to factors and influences that played a direct role in the structure of the poetic text. Before delving into the study of the means of poetic imagery through which poets expressed their hidden emotions and feelings, it is necessary to define the concept of imagery.