The reality of the desert and the response to him In Arabic poetry Before Islam

Abstract

   This research talks about the reality of desert and its effects on the people in the age of ignorance. Especially the poets because they are the most sensitive, thoughtful and they focus on the events that are happening in their situation more carefully. Therefore, they had their reactions and different opinions about the bitter and hard situation that was destined and couldn't escape from it. And it was depended, some of them encountered the case with their courage, bravery and physical power, and some of them relied on big camels to overcome their difficulties, and some of them made a travel in the form of community in order to protect themselves because traveling in groups have a power and since deserts are enormous and no one cares or depends on others, so they needed someone to guide them and be their assistant to help them pass the obstructions and difficulties and not let them to be lost, or a different way from the ways that have been explained was amazement, that they had to be in harmony and compatible with the desert and what are living in it - especially the animals - as the tramps did.