The Polarities of the City in Mohammad Afifi Matar's Poetry; Signs of Defamiliarization in Functions and its Semantic Aspects

The Polarity of place in contemporary Arabic poetry recognized through the frequency of acceptance of semantic contradictions and dualism in place. Meanwhile, in the understanding of the many concepts in the text, the Polarity of the city has a prominent function and it is a great help to the reader in accepting the depth of the poet's thoughts, images, and individual and social moods. The city in the poetry of Mohammad Afifi Matar, citing the depth of overall image that can be obtained from his poetic examples, has a lot of dual semantic structure. Because the poet on the one hand paints a complex and profound picture of city and on the other hand it is trying to expand its elements and belongings to create a different perception of its concepts in the mind of the reader. This research, using a descriptive-analytical approach, seeks to examine the Polarity of city functions in Mohammad Afifi Matar's poetry. Briefly, the result is telling that the poet to have a defamiliarization look with the city, goes beyond the standard language, insists on repeating it, and characterized by the interaction between different semantic contrasts that have spatial paradoxical aesthetic effects. On the one hand, he uses the inherent Polarity and objective reality, stability and weakness, hunger and well-being, and also time and place to define the narrative characteristic of what happened in the city; he extends the scope of its semantic functions on the other hand.