Abstract

Intertextuality appears to be of crucial significance to better comprehend texts (Ahmadian and Yazdani, 2013).This research addresses intertextuality as an important technique manifested in modern Arabic poetry trying to investigate its conception, identify a sample of these salient embedded texts, and analyze them and their positive impact on enriching the text and illuminating some related issues such as ideology and perception of the world of experience in the Jordanian modern poetry, with special attention devoted to the recent poetry of Ayman Al-Otoum. Models representing this phenomenon in his poetry has been collected and compared with much assertion on the importance of this technique in enriching both levels: the idea and rhyme. The outcomes would be of a great importance to raise people’s awareness of the extensive impact of culture, religion, society on language, the tissue of the interrelated texts, enrich understanding of the language and enhance the translation practice and the quality of the translation output.Keywords: Intertextuality, intertextual elements, allusion, Arabic Free Verse Poetry, Ayman Al-Otoum’s poetry

Highlights

  • The Arab revolution against the Ottoman Empire was accompanied with enough attention to education and poetry by the leader of the revolution, Prince Abdullah I

  • The supporting role of Prince Abdullah, who himself was a poet and orator, of the poetic movement through his court which included a large number of writers and poets such as Arar, Tayseer Dhabian and Saeed al-Dura

  • The analysis and discussion of the selected examples of intertextuality notable in four poems of Al-Otoum have aimed at shedding light on some explanations behind such phenomena that cannot be ignored or marginalized

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The Arab revolution against the Ottoman Empire was accompanied with enough attention to education and poetry by the leader of the revolution, Prince Abdullah I. The supporting role of Prince Abdullah, who himself was a poet and orator, of the poetic movement through his court which included a large number of writers and poets such as Arar, Tayseer Dhabian and Saeed al-Dura. The role of the conventional system of poetry in Jordan had been eliminated in the late sixties, among the pioneers are Muayyad Al-Attili and Majid Shahin. This poetry has become familiar in the eighties as adopted by Ibrahim Al-Safin, Ahmed al-Shara, and Ameen Shinar

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