Desolation in pre-Islamic poetry is a source of existential anxiety and an expression of a lived tragic dimension

The transformation of the Arab tribes in search of water and pasture and leaving the remnants of the homes tampered with by the winds and the factors of erosion formed a scene for the poets of the pre-Islamic period, and they prolonged standing at it and weeping over it. In the search for the real reasons that explain this important phenomenon in Arabic literature, as the opinions of some of them came in agreement at times and divergent at times, and this research presents the most prominent of those critical opinions, trying to judge them to abstract logic at times and to poetic texts at other times, so that we can reach an existential concern that haunts poets while they are They contemplate the scenes of execution practiced by time on places without the meanings that these places carry, representing the source of inspiration for poets and giving them space to contemplate the sanctuary of life, reinforcing what we have reached with various poetic texts.