Title: Technical Standards "What the Hoopoe Narrated by Hazem Rshek Al-Tamimi

Abstract

The term "aesthetics" was first coined by Baumgarten in his 1734 doctoral dissertation, "Philosophical Reflections on Poetry," a text considered the foundational work of aesthetics and the philosophy of art. Baumgarten termed it the science of sensory perception, positing that the study of poetry should be aesthetic, meaning that the sensibility of poetic discourse has two aspects: a conceptual aspect related to sensory representations as mental images perceived through the senses—pertaining to the artistic experience, that is, what transpires within the artist's mind—and a linguistic aspect that embodies these representations and images through words. The poetry collection "What the Hoopoe Narrated" by the Iraqi poet Hazem Rshek Al-Tamimi serves as an applied example of these criteria.

Consequently, our research is structured into two sections. The first, "Aesthetic Criteria in Artistic Creation," encompasses three criteria: "Imagination, Emotion, and Feeling." The second section, "Aesthetic Criteria in the Artistic Medium," addresses "Accuracy in Description, Aptness in Simile, and Appropriateness of the Metaphor's Source and Target." Aesthetic criteria in the creative process are found in the complete equilibrium between the emotion the artist experiences and the image through which that emotion is expressed in the artistic medium. Imagination, feeling, and emotion are integral to this process. As for the criteria within the artistic medium—such as accuracy in description, aptness in simile, and the appropriateness of the metaphor's source and target—these are merely criteria embodied in the artistic medium through imagination, feeling, and sentiment. Artistic imagination is not simply the assembly of parts and elements; rather, it is a selection, coordination, and manipulation involving augmentation or deletion, diminution or excision, and addition. The novelty brought forth by the imagination is what is manifested before sensory perception.