The text is a construct that cannot reach its various spaces without standing at its thresholds, as there is no naked text and it must be covered with a title, which is the entrance that precedes the body of the text, its significance is complete onl
y with it. Standing at the thresholds allows the reader to stand at the writer's thoughts and reveal the relationship of the title to the content as it is the interpretive key to open the text lockers, and because it falls within the system of parallel thresholds, it is not inside or outside the text, but in the case of a relationship with it. Hence this approach came to emphasize the importance of these thresholds in reading poetic texts as they are conditional and necessary input, it is necessary to build an initial vision to understand the text. Especially that this study is concerned with Adonis in his poetry collection, " Beginnings of the Body, Ends of the Sea ", Adonis's thresholds are rich and open to endless readings. Adonis, a poet who excels in choosing his thresholds is overwhelmed by poetry, as if you were standing in front of a small, intense poetic passage, foreshadowing the greater explosion of the text universes and their implications.
The contemporary interest has increased with the titles, so that some researchers
considered the titles as mini texts which contribute in forming a primary opinion that
motivate the reader and guide him to some meaning that the authors referring to
, and other
researchers considered the titles just a hypothesis for reading, not prejudice, because it
might lead the reader towards the meaning directly, and it might deceive and mislead him
as well, which make the creative texts poetically bigger and richer, and in both cases the
title remains the first textual episode that the reader’s awareness meet with the creative
text, regardless the type of the titles: realistic, equivocation, symbolism and others.
My choice has fallen into this research because of the variety that Ghassan Wannous
text stories’ have shown, which indicates the awareness of the writer about the importance
of the titles, and the role it might perform in serving the textual meaning, and this is what
this research aspires to approach and highlights.
