تجليات الهوية و الوعي بالمكان في الشعر العربي القديم

Abstract EN

The search for the self represents a serious concern for the pr-Islamic Arabic man.

Due to living under organized collective principles and traditions that are domain and unarguable, and which refuse any role of the (I) except under the frame of (we), it pushed poets to seek their being and identity.

For this reason, this paper tries to find out the role of the Ego and its influence through viewing and examining some selected texts of ancient Arabic poetry, besides giving an attention to the language used as it represents the poet's tool and means to express his aims and wishes.

The researcher has chosen the 'place' for being an important feature of the manifestation of identity, and its crystallization in the ancient poetic text as man always longs for a place that he plants his roots in, and through which he finds his identity since the connection between man and ‘place' is considered deep and inevitable.