Semiotics of Nature in the Poetry Collection Flowers and Legends by Badr Shaker Al-Sayyab

Abstract

Semiotics of Nature in the Poetry Collection Flowers and Legends by Badr Shaker Al-Sayyab

    This study explores how the vocabulary of nature in Badr Shakir Al-Sayyab’s poetry collection Flowers and Legends has become signs. It investigates how this natural vocabulary, as signs, indicates semiotic significations, and what those significations might be. Additionally, the study seeks to uncover how these meanings reveal Al-Sayyab’s poetic vision. The aim is to understand the semiotic structure of nature's vocabulary in his work. The study follows semiotic procedures, including the analysis of titles and the breakdown of the text's surface structure according to linguistic levels (phonological, morphological, syntactical, and semantic). It also applies Peirce's tripartite division—icon, index, and symbol—to uncover the deep structure of the poems within the collection, which is the focus of the study. Al-Sayyab paid significant attention to the vocabulary of nature throughout Flowers and Legends, granting it semiotic significations through mechanisms that this study attempts to uncover, using a descriptive-analytical method.

Keywords: nature, Semiotics, flowers and Legends, Al-Sayyab.