من مظاهر القلق الوجودي في معلقة طرفة بن العبد

Abstract EN

Since man realized the inevitability of death .

he tried to solve its mystery .

As a result of helplessness in this issue , he turned to make use of the pleasure of life continuously , he also trie to make his surroundings obey his desires .

This is what called the existential anxiety.

A close reading of Mua’laqat Tarfa shows that the poet is concerned with pleasure rather than duty .

We study in this paper the signs of this anxiety .

The study is divided into two section: the first shows the signs of following pleasure and the second shows the attempts of the poet to exploit others in order to achieve his illegal desire .

the study is concluded with a conclusion that sums up the results which the present study arrived at.