The Aesthetic Awareness in Poetry: A Reading of the Metapoem

Abstract

This study examines the aspect of experimentation in Jordanian poetry based on the concept of the "Metapoem" as a critical term and one of the concepts of contemporary poetic modernity, poetic projects in its aesthetic dimension. It investigates how the poem represents itself and its aesthetic transformations to clarify the connection between the poet and poem by observing the transformations of the poem’s presence as a changing artistic form, and revealing the distinctive aesthetic elements in Atef Al-Faraya’s poetry. The research is based on a vision that confirms the "metapoem" as a form of aesthetic transformation in poetic creativity. The researcher adopts an aesthetic approach that deals with poetry as an embodiment of existing or emerging aesthetic transformations, and as an expression of the kind of consciousness it represents and that simultaneously shapes it.

This research focuses on the aesthetic transformations within the metapoem as texts that contemplate the nature of the poem itself. Consequently, the concept of the metapoem falls within the framework of modern experimental concepts to reflect the state of the development of the poem in its aesthetic dimension. The study concluded that ‘Aṭif Al-Farāyah consciously exploited the poem as an artistic subject in the service of his poetic work. He investigated its nature, function, and impact, reflecting a self-awareness of its nature as a poem. This research recommends a comparative study of the metapoem across different poetic contexts to deepen understanding of this critical and artistic form