Ambiguity in the Poetry of Adonis Selected Models from "Book of Transformations and Migration in the Regions of Day and Night

Abstract

This study examines the phenomenon of ambiguity in Adonis’s poetry as a central structural and aesthetic feature of contemporary Arabic verse. It argues that ambiguity in Adonis stems from modern poetic vision, the interplay of language and image, and symbolic function within the text, which expands the possibilities of meaning and produces interpretive openness.

The study aims to define ambiguity, trace its historical presence in ancient and modern Arabic poetry to distinguish its functions and causes, and monitor its main patterns (symbolic and verbal ambiguities, referential plurality, and the impossibility of the image). It intends to distinguish between constructive artistic ambiguity that enriches meaning and non-artistic ambiguity that turns into obscurity and disrupts communication, and then reveal the mechanisms of its formation in Adonis’s experience by analyzing selected models from “The Book of Transformations and Migration in the Regions of Day and Night”.

The research adopts a descriptive-analytical approach, using a stylistic approach to trace linguistic shifts and the formal imaginative formation. The results of the study concluded that ambiguity in Adonis's poetry is a deliberate aesthetic strategy that deepens suggestion and expands the possibilities of interpretation, and that in most cases it does not devolve into obscurity, but rather produces an interactive text that makes the reader become a partner in making meaning