The Metaphorical Sense of Hunting in Pre-Islamic Poetry (A Study in Conceptual Structure)

Pre-Islamic poetry is a historical document through which pre-Islamic thought can be probed with a metaphorical probe, as it is a mechanism of the mind’s operation and a way of thinking to see the world. The pre-Islamic poet lived hunting as a craft and a pleasure, and he projected it into many areas, through conceptual metaphors that he deposited in his words and art. To discover his world from his hunting. The research started from a question whose main content was (How did the poets of the pre-Islamic era employ hunting in their conceptual metaphors?), adopting the descriptive approach in extrapolating and analyzing the artistic component. The research came in two sections. The first section classified metaphors, and the second dealt with hunting metaphors in pre-Islamic poetry (hunting rhymes - The hunt for love - the hunt for death - the hunt for eternity - the hunt for war), arriving at the conclusion that the metaphor is originally a conceptual mind, a way of thinking, and hunting is a real experience that the pre-Islamic people experienced and projected onto the things around them to know their essence.