Document Type : Research paper
Authors
1 PhD student in Arabic Language and Literature, Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University
2 Associated professor, Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University
3 professor, Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University
4 Department of Arabic Language and Literature, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University, Tabriz, Iran.
Abstract
Literary semiotics as a literary criticism method deals with the implication structure of literary works and analyzes the world inside the text to express the role of linguistic signs in the making and production of meanings of a literary work. Peirce’s theory of semiotics is a critical method for analyzing poetic works that divide signs into three parts of representation, subject and interpretation. In this theory, the concept of sign and its final form is made of three components. Mohammad Adam, the Egyptian poet, is a modern poet who largely represents the concept of death in his poems and assumes a major role in the signs which his poetic themes about death. The present article uses Peirce’s theory of semiotics and the basics of the semiotics of codes to analyze the signs pertaining to the concept of death in the poems of Mohammad Adam and to reveal clear and laten aspects of his poetics. Research data suggest that man represents poetic images and visible states such as falling off the rocks and large spiders, deep cliffs, etc. to create his textuality and to expand the concept of signs related to death by means of the subjects and details and enumerating some features of death like being terrifying and unknown. In the end, he fulfills the concept of the sign by means of interpretation and expresses his general attitude to the category of death and life, thus unveiling the voidness, pessimism and nihilism of his beliefs about the world to come.
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