A study of the poem “Tanwimah al-Hamja’” by Muhammad Mahdi al-Jawahiri in the light of exploratory and retrospective reading

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran

Abstract

Introduction:Semiotics as an emerging knowledge in human sciences tries to establish broad horizons between reader and text through discovering signs، signs and how to use them in a text. One of the semiotics theorists of poetry is Michael Rifatter، who believes that two kinds of readings can be extracted from any literary text: Exploratory readings and semiotic readings. Exploratory reading is the physical reading of the text, and understanding the apparent meaning of words while heuristic reading goes beyond the apparent meaning of words and examines the signs in the literary text, then achieves those elements that make the text more literary, Michael Rifutter in his semiotic theory mentions elements such as ingrammaticals, descriptive systems and accumulations (words and synonymous phrases). Through them, the reader gains access to other elements such as the hippogram (the general picture of poetry in the reader's mind) and the matrix. Then we find these elements together to explore and semiotic readings of the text.

Methodology: The theoretical basis of this research is the adaptation of Michael Rifatter's theory, so in this paper we analyze and analyze Mohammad Mehdi al-Javaheri's Tannavimat al-ji'a ode using descriptive-analytical method. Michael Rifatter, a renowned French linguist whose main goal was to create a strong and fundamental structure for reading and understanding poetry, offers a reader-centered approach in analyzing poetry, according to Rifatter's theory, each literary text consists of two layers: deep layers and surface layers. The reader must recognize these two layers, then analyze the signs in the deep layers of poetry and through these signs to achieve the general and fundamental meaning of the poem. In analyzing poetry, Rifatter emphasizes minor and believes that the general rules governing the text can be reached through details, meaning Rifatr means the study of the signs in the deep layers of the text.

conclusiom: Semantic ingrammatical in this ode is abundantly seen in such a way that most of the words used in this ode as mentioned have many meanings in their root as mentioned، those secondary meanings are seen in the form of metaphor، metaphor and permissible that by using the array of recognition and animate this meaning emerges in the mind of the audience and also the use of words in their metaphorical meaning will present a particular subject All these elements together have led the poem to escape its simple and apparent state and enter the world of semiotics .

Results and discussion: The results that we have reached in this research are that Michael Rifater's semiotic view is adaptable to this ode. The Ode of Tanouima al-Ji'a has few indirectives from the syntactic point of view, but from a semantic point of view it is full of indirectives that have been expressed in the form of authorization, irony, metaphor and metaphor, and on the other hand, elements of Michael Rifter's view such as descriptive systems, accumulators, hypograms, and finally matrix The main themes of this poem are the main themes of this poem.

Introduction:Semiotics as an emerging knowledge in human sciences tries to establish broad horizons between reader and text through discovering signs، signs and how to use them in a text. One of the semiotics theorists of poetry is Michael Rifatter، who believes that two kinds of readings can be extracted from any literary text: Exploratory readings and semiotic readings. Exploratory reading is the physical reading of the text, and understanding the apparent meaning of words while heuristic reading goes beyond the apparent meaning of words and examines the signs in the literary text, then achieves those elements that make the text more literary, Michael Rifutter in his semiotic theory mentions elements such as ingrammaticals, descriptive systems and accumulations (words and synonymous phrases). Through them, the reader gains access to other elements such as the hippogram (the general picture of poetry in the reader's mind) and the matrix. Then we find these elements together to explore and semiotic readings of the text.

Methodology: The theoretical basis of this research is the adaptation of Michael Rifatter's theory, so in this paper we analyze and analyze Mohammad Mehdi al-Javaheri's Tannavimat al-ji'a ode using descriptive-analytical method. Michael Rifatter, a renowned French linguist whose main goal was to create a strong and fundamental structure for reading and understanding poetry, offers a reader-centered approach in analyzing poetry, according to Rifatter's theory, each literary text consists of two layers: deep layers and surface layers. The reader must recognize these two layers, then analyze the signs in the deep layers of poetry and through these signs to achieve the general and fundamental meaning of the poem. In analyzing poetry, Rifatter emphasizes minor and believes that the general rules governing the text can be reached through details, meaning Rifatr means the study of the signs in the deep layers of the text.

conclusiom: Semantic ingrammatical in this ode is abundantly seen in such a way that most of the words used in this ode as mentioned have many meanings in their root as mentioned، those secondary meanings are seen in the form of metaphor، metaphor and permissible that by using the array of recognition and animate this meaning emerges in the mind of the audience and also the use of words in their metaphorical meaning will present a particular subject All these elements together have led the poem to escape its simple and apparent state and enter the world of semiotics .

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