The cognitive reference in the poetry of Safi al-Din al-Hilli

Abstract

This research presents a critical reading of one of the cultural references on which the poet relies in his poetic texts, which is the cognitive reference, as this reference constituted a fertile source for artistic employment, because poetry is one of the texts that open to various knowledge and sciences. He relied on several knowledges in his poetic texts, including knowledge of rhetoric, grammar and presentations, in addition to his knowledge of birds, astronomy and planets.