Objectives: This study explores the aesthetics of scenography in Arabic poetry, focusing on the dialectical scenography in Muhammad Al-Qaysi's works. It underscores the significance of integrating theatrical scenography elements for crafting and enhancing poetic images. Additionally, the study highlights the poet's adept use of scenography in his texts, examining his awareness of their importance in selected works.
Methods: This study employs a semantical extrapolation approach, examining linguistic relations, visual signs, and symbolic signs. It systematically employs a deconstruction and construction approach to unravel meaning and connotation through language and technique. The study unfolds in three steps: describing the text as a network of embedded and intensive relations, exploring the signifier, and concluding with discourse analysis.
Results: The study confirmed Al-Qaisi's endeavors to experiment with image, language, and rhythm in parallel with his awareness of the role of scenography in reproducing the structure and formation of his poetic text. Thus, it leads to the importance of the role of the active reader who can disassemble, interpret, and reproduce the text in each reading. In addition to that, the study concluded that arts converge in multiple relations which generate the fact that the core of deep art is the same in all arts.
Conclusions: The study recommends studying the subject of scenography elements in modern poetry, its multiple representations, and its impact on the receiver and expectations. It urges researchers to explore new techniques that add novelty to the poetic text.