The function structure in the poetry of Ahmed Matar

Abstract

This research is interested in focusing on the basic structures that shaped Ahmed Matar’s poetic speech, which is based on the concept of semantic structure, which is a concept that is considered one of the most important procedural concepts that form the theoretical basis for Lucian Goldman’s theses on compositional structuralism. This concept is based on the central idea that literary works include semantic structures. Totality, as we find in any literary work a general idea that is constantly recurring whenever we move from one paragraph to another, and this structure varies from one literary work to another. Totality is considered one of the distinctive characteristics of the structures of literary works. Therefore, the literary phenomenon - from the perspective of compositional structuralism - must be studied in its comprehensiveness, as for every An element in the structure of the literary text and its assigned function. Therefore, neglecting any of these elements leads to breaking the unity of the literary text. This suggests to us - implicitly - that the concept of function structure, as Goldman viewed it, seeks to create an internal unity between the components of the text. Goldman focused on Structure based on the functions it performs in a literary work. He pointed out how to discover the significant structure, from Goldman's point of view, the researcher must. In order to understand the work that he is about to study, he must adhere primarily to searching for the structure that almost includes the entirety of the text, based on a basic rule that specialists in literature rarely respect, which is that the researcher must encompass the entirety of the text, not add anything to it, and explain its composition. Deducing the significant structure in the literary work in general, and the novel in particular, can only be done by reading the text particles in light of the totality of the text itself, focusing on its essential functional significance in the world. Goldman left the field of searching for the significant structure in the novel work dependent on the critic’s sensory abilities. The concept of the functional structure not only assumes the unity of the parts within the totality of the text and the internal relationship between the elements, but at the same time it assumes the transition between a static vision to a dynamic vision, that is, the unity of origin with function.