Semiotics of language codes in the poem "Odat Sinbad" written by Ali Fodeh

A new approach in literary studies that has attracted the attention of many critics and researchers is semiotics, or the analysis of signs and codes in literary texts. Semiotics is applied to the study of different sign systems such as languages, images and symbolic situations. Codes are one of the fundamental concepts of semiotics that serve as a framework within which signs find a meaning. Since literature is in close relationship with human sciences, literary critics have had the benefits of semiotic methods in interpretation of texts. Semiotic research of codes has not been done on Arabic poems. Therefore, due to the necessity in this regard, the present study, which is qualitative and descriptive in nature, uses library resources to aim at the semiotics language codes of the poem "Odat Sinbad" and to explore the degree of correspondence between those codes and the poet’s living conditions as well as their role in the cohesion of his poems. It is found that the poet’s psychological character is embodied in the linguistic and mythical codes of the narrative writing. In addition, the literary entity of the poem is indebted to its aesthetic codes.