The Impact of Dream Memory and Wakefulness on the Poetry of Sheikh Jaafar
Abstract
The research aims to discover the interaction and impact between memory, dreaming and wakefulness, and their importance is gained through their effectiveness in the poetic texts of Sheikh Jaafar and his intellectual and expressive richness, by showing varying feelings of nostalgia, which makes the dream synonymous with life in all its meaning, and if the vision is the work of the naked eye in the state of wakefulness, the creative vision of poetry is the act of imagination during the dream, and the dream text is characterized by the psychological needs it has embraced by the thought of the poet who hopes to achieve it, which makes it closer and closer to the poetic experience, by approaching the nature of poetic creation. Memory falls within the scope of the dream. As for the poetic obsession, it falls within the scope of the waking dream at the level of individual memory within the framework of the dream that produces the image, but the relationship between memory, dreaming and waking does not retain in its textual context the retrieval and at the same time is subject to fundamental changes in the process of creative production, so the memory in its dream manifestation leads to the field of the image. Both memory, dream and wakefulness form an important basis in understanding human consciousness and its effects on the formation of knowledge and experience. According to Sheikh Jaafar, poetry is focused on recovering childhood experiences and stretching his language to it. The journey to it is dreamy, and thus the poet accomplished according to the miracle of the delusional return of time through vocabulary, and this is his poetry exploit. The research methodology includes analytical studies to understand the relationship between memory, dreaming and wakefulness, and the door remains open to those who are interested for further studies with different research methodologies because poetry is a means of transferring and perpetuating memory.
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