The aesthetics of employing the galaxy in ancient Arabic poetry until the end of the Abbasid era

The sky, with its enchanting beauty and the astronomical phenomena that surrounds it, was and still is a source of inspiration in describing, comparing, similarizing, metaphorizing, and creating wonderful artistic images. Their poetic language and highlighting their ability in it, and they may deprive it of the subtlety of its beauty, the secret of its beauty, to add to it artistic aesthetic values. The galaxy was one of the tributaries that occupy a part of the poetry of Arab poets for purposes such as praise, description, pride and pride, which they use in their poetic discourse, especially in their analogies. They derive their colour, height, shape, appearance and the lights of the stars they possess to depict the wonderful meanings expressing their feelings, emotions and whims. The contents and images derived from them have evolved over the ages. This study, in summary, attempts to extrapolate the poetic verses in the galaxy from ancient poetry until the end of the Abbasid era and to study the aesthetics of their artistic use.Keywords: aesthetics. galaxy. old poetry Abbasid