Transformation Pattern in the Poem "Atlas Assal" by Farazdaq: An Analytical-Cultural Reading.

Abstract

The study aims to highlight the ability of cultural patterns to transform within poetic texts, and that it cannot be confined to the four parameters set by T. Parsons, namely, adaptation, ability to achieve a goal (goal capacity), integration, and balance. Thus, the study tackles an important issue that is cultural patterns have been restricted by cultural studies to two aspects: ugly or aesthetic. Therefore, the current study attempts to highlight two concomitant faces for cultural patterns that are at the same time contradictory to each other, based on the characteristics of the transformation pattern, and based on the descriptive-analytical approach. This investigation has a theoretical component and a procedural and analytical one. Analysis makes the conclusion that the case study, i.e., the text “Atlas Assal” by Al-Farazdaq contains rich cultural patterns. This indicates that he had a poetic ability to create alternatives in the appropriate circumstance. The study recommends that it is necessary to read poetic texts interpretively, i.e., hermeneutically that reveal their meanings and capture their linguistic ‘gymnastics and aerobatics’.