First: an introduction to the concept of the poetic experience

01First: an introduction to the concept of the poetic experience

• After studying the unity of poetry, its several schools and its different texts, we conclude that every poem issued from a poetic experience and a sincere suffering that the poet felt and was moved by, and then brought out in the form we study.
• The elements of the experience, as we uncover them:
• The intellectual element: the subject of the poem and the meanings the poet brought.
• The emotional element: the sum of the feelings to whose sway the poet was subjected.
• The expressive element: the poetic formulation in which ideas mingle with sensations, and in which words, structures, images, imaginative figures and music express the ideas and the feelings.

Definition of the poetic experience

• It is the complete psychological or cosmic picture that the poet paints when he thinks about some matter with a thinking that takes possession of his feelings and sensations, so that he finds no outlet except the verse he composes.

The elements of the poetic experience

• Wijdān — also named emotion, sensation, feeling, or being-moved.
• Thought (fikr).
• The expressive image, comprising words, structures, images, imaginative figures and music.