The Centrality Of Interpretation In Poetic Discourse Analysis

Abstract

In examining the question of poetry, it is not significant to seek limited answers that merely add another layer of stagnation to classical reading approaches, following unilateral perspectives that impose predetermined value judgments dominated by ideological constraints. Rather, it is the hermeneutics of poetry that grants readers the freedom to navigate between intended meanings and conceptual hypotheses—an approach that closely resembles the Sufi experience in its transcendental journey within the text to uncover the essence of meaning. This rich experience in our Arab heritage has expanded its horizons through modern studies that have crystallized interpretation into a methodological framework, through the principle of multiple readings that remain inherently relative and require subsequent deconstruction. The reader's task in this domain remains analyzing discourse from its surface level before penetrating its depths in a way that highlights its multiplicity of meanings.