The struggle of life and death in the poetry of Imra Al Qais
Abstract
The harshness of the desert environment, the depletion of its livelihoods and the lack of its economic resources had a great impact on the Arabs sense of death, as he expected it permanently, if he was prevented from obtaining these resources, and the social life of Arabs based on the unity of the tribe led to the existence of permanent conflict between these tribes to obtain economic resources. Basic for them (water and pasture). This infighting led them to find another important source of livelihood, which is dispossession by conquest. Thus, a pre-Islamic person lived an unstable, anxious life. If he was assured of the presence of water and pasture, he would not be safe from invading a hostile tribe. Hence death always represented him, and he became his companion so that he no longer feared it. The biggest proof of this is the life of conquest that they loved. The poets boasted of themselves and their people because they threw themselves into death without hesitation or fear. We find confirmation of this in the words of the poets, and let us suffice with the saying of Antara: They run a ham, and our swords remove beards and seals from them And his saying: And I will die when the cannah breaks out, and the stabbing of me is very early. And from their sense of this accompaniment of death, their sense of the shortness of life and the imminence of life are generated, as (((Someone of them did not secure death in one day of his life, but his danger is never ending)). The feeling of death is a mystical and hidden feeling in the soul of every person. If it reveals itself in difficult times, it often disappears behind life practices and the feeling of death cannot be a conscious feeling like the feeling of life, rather it is an intense feeling in secret that sometimes appears in special circumstances with a mask. Symbols once again do not guarantee their disappearance and sleep on them .... That a little research reveals to us the symbols of life and death in all aspects of our lives as they are intertwined in the fabric of our history and our myths.