vol 25 no1, 2025

The Effectiveness of Religious Intertextuality in Shaping Jordanian Poetry

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The Effectiveness of Religious Intertextuality in Shaping Jordanian Poetry

Zayed Mohammed Alkhawaldeh

Zarqa Private University

Faculty of Arts - Department of Arabic Language

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Received : 26/07/2023                                                                   Accepted :06/03/2024

Abstract:

This study aims to examine the effectiveness of intertextuality, as a technique that contributes to clarifying the vision of poetics, through importing the text from its original reference, and modifying it in accordance with the poet's position regarding contemporary issues or lived experiences. Hence, the poet seeks to find new relationships between the structural elements, and to create a specific semantic tension that leads to the formation of a new poetic discourse inspired by the original text, but it becomes more suggestive and significant. In order to express his psychology and his position on the situation he monitors, whether it is social, political or cultural. Thus, we find that Jordanian poets have been well aware of the importance of intertextuality, especially religious, to express their visions and positions regarding issues affecting the Arab and Islamic nation, the most important of which is the Palestinian issue. Since the Palestinian Arab people have suffered greatly from the political and social issues that have thrown them into the midst of tearing, loss and dispersion, this matter prompted Jordanian poets of Palestinian origin to adopt this vision. Hence, the research explored this technique and its effectiveness in revealing what is behind the text or its new connotation, according to a special aesthetic that draws the conscious reader in revealing the content of this poetic discourse and activating, at the same time, the consciousness of reading the poetic texts to reach a specific vision.

Keywords: Jordanian poetry, intertextuality, poetic formation.

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