THE CRITERIA OF USING MYTH IN MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY ARABIC POETRY

Abstract

     This research aims to discuss myth and the criteria for its use in poetic texts. As a distinctive feature of modern and Contemporary Arabic poetry, some critics even consider it a fundamental condition for the poem structure.

Myth is a major factor of modernity in modern and contemporary Arabic poetry. Therefore, we have explained in this paper its types and the conditions of its use in poetic text. The foremost of these conditions is taking into account the situational context, creating intertextuality between the meaning and the intended purpose, and referring to it with keynotes without narrating it as such, and further criteria and conditions that we have discussed in this paper.