1
College of Education for Women, Tikrit University
2
College of Education Tuz Khurmatu, Tikrit University
Abstract
This critical study aims at showing the extent of the Arab poet's interest in animals and his attachment to them. It concentrates on the poet's relation to animals in the Pre-Islamic and the early Islamic ages when symbolism was a daring beginning for new poetic texts containing consciousness, will and illumination to emply symbols in that poetic epoch in which poet proved their existence against the changing atmosphere., therefore is divided into two sections: the first deals with the she-camel as symbol and the second is devoted to the symbolism of other animals. The last part of the paper is the conclusion which gives a summary of the results of the study.
