The Poetics of Color in the Poem (The Youth Was Granted) by Salama bin Jandal Al-Saadi

Abstract

The study aims to reveal the effect of the color sign on the two structures of the text. Formalism and morality in the poem (The Youth Was Granted) by Salama bin Jandal Al-Saadi, Color did not become a luxury and did not stop at the aesthetic function. Rather, it went beyond that to contribute to the stylistic formation that expresses the intellectual and emotional visions of the poet in light of his reliance on color to express the emotional state controlling his thought. From the disappearance of youth, and the arrival of old age, with all the fear and unknown fate it brings, trying to cope with that, by also employing color in depicting women, tools of war, and the environment around him.

      The study adopted the theory of poetics as a tool to examine and explore the structure of color in the poem’s formats, and the extent of the effectiveness of this theme in embodying what the study intends in the semantic structure of the text.

      The study concluded that the use of color in the poem is a remarkable phenomenon in the formal structure of the text. And to the effectiveness of poetry in the structure of color in revealing the anxiety inside the poet about life, and its continuous leakage from his hands, as well as the internal conflict between the stage of youth and old age exposed by the gray hair withdrawing from the poet’s poetry and life. And the effect of the use of color on multiple readings and interpretations in the text. And the role of the color sign in the text in the possibility of successful semiotic study based on the extension of the stylistic signs within the text to the poet’s life outside the text.