Chaos in Worlds: A Critical Quest for Metapoetry

Abstract

Metapoetry is a self–reflexive poetic construction on poetry. It penetrates the process of writing poetry from a self-oriented view. This study purports to scrutinize the term from a critical-aesthetic and culture perspective. It aims at interpreting selected metapoems, classic and modern. The study hypothesizes that metapooesis is not progressive of modernity; it is practiced through the history of worldwide literature. Therefore, the study is not confined to the exploration of the Anglo-Saxon world of poetry. Rather, it will draw on the German, Persian and Arab Poetics as well. One finding of the study is that metapoetics is a culture- aesthetic universal, shared by worldwide poetics and poets. Metapoetics in this sense, is timeless poetics form.