The Humanization of Animals in the Poetry of the Pre-Islamic Period

The study aims at using modern stylistic research tools to uncover the aspects of humanizing animals in the poetry of the pre-Islamic period. The study also tries to tackle the role that the humanization of animals in the poetry of the pre-Islamic period plays in studying the nature of this poetry that can still be understood and appreciated. As it is impossible to distance this kind of poetry from the environment where it was created, it is also impossible to distance it from the stylistics that distinguish its structure and that make its meaning imaginable in the minds of its readers.
            The knowledge of the poet of the pre-Islamic period and the richness of his poetry with intellectual visions and figurative language made it possible to humanize animals in his/her poetry. The study is important as it attempts to describe the relation between the poets of the pre-Islamic period and the animals of his/her environment. The study shows that those poets knew those animals very well, and that they utilized them in their poetry in a way that satisfied their psychological state and their wish to humanize them as they formed an essential part of their daily life.