The problem of “saying what is understood” and “understanding what is being said” An investigation into the reception and interpretation of contemporary poetry

Abstract

The problem of "saying what is understood" and "understanding what is said"
is an examination of the reception and interpretation of the contemporary poem.
Therefore, the reading of the poem focuses on the recombined and the different, or the
apparent and the implicit from the network of meanings.
Interpretation undertakes to reveal this harmony that is absent - in
appearance - and that lies in the far reaches of poetic creativity, and to search for hidden
features of homogeneity and trace its hidden intentions. To pursue the hidden relationships
that organize the worlds of the poetic text, and to search for what some critics have called:
"secret kinship / parenté secrete". It aims to control the semantics of the lexicon used and
to trace its real dimensions so that the interpretative process becomes like probing the
depths of the text through the anthropomorphism of the language and its repercussions….
and the poem becomes a symbol. The first obsession of the reader of poetry is represented
in the attempt to interpret the “underlying language”, to trace the underlying intentions of
the text, and to monitor areas of light in the absence of work that may be characterized by
dissonance and illogicality, due to the emancipation of words from their deliberative
contexts, or what Abdel Salam Al-Masdi expressed as: "Convention", which means the
repetition of the symbols used and their return in a way that makes them expressive circles
of limited significance. The use of symbols in an idiomatic way empties them of their
poetic and aesthetic meaning and makes them predictable and not surprising.
Keywords: Contemporary poetry, homogeneity, dissonance, reader, interpretation