Pre Islamic Poetry Characteristics

Pre-Islamic Arabia was basically the time before the spread of Islam. This period had certain characteristics that shaped it. Poetry was very important in pre-Islamic Arabia and a poet was considered as someone with very high status and respect within their tribe. Poetry and its components evolved with the timespan of the human’s life. In order to understand the poetry in pre-Islamic Arabia we have to look at pre-Islamic Arabia, we have to understand the characteristics of pre-Islamic Arabia, we have to look at the early forms of poetry and the parts that make up a poetry, we have to know a couple of dominant poets back then and finally look at the mu’allaqat. Pre-Islamic Arabia had some main characteristics that helped in shaping the

As mentioned above a poetry could be composed for various factors. According to M. V. McDonald one type of poetry known as praise poetry this is basically when the poet praises himself or praises his tribe. This type of poetry serves as a boost of morale for both the tribe and the individuals, it emphasizes the tribal structure, helped the poet to exaggerate the tribes success and minimize the setbacks as they are looked upon as some sort of journalists, it can also reduce or eliminate bloodshed and finally the pride that the tribe gains just by having a poet in their tribe. Another type of poetry is known as war poetry. This type is not used widely as it mainly revolves around war. So it was not used much is peaceful areas. Another type of poetry was composed to increase the morale of the soliders and warriors at that time. Of course not to forget the love poetry this was available at that time. Love poetry basically expresses ones emotions. In pre-Islamic Arabia we have many poetess writing this type of poetry. Another type of poetry include the praise of ones horses and camels. These are a few topics that the poets wrote about in pre-Islamic