Premises of the Semiotic Analysis of the Modern Poem

Abstract

Some contemporary studies adopt language as their point of departure for reading and analyzing poetic discourse in particular, inasmuch as language is the primary element of creativity that distinguishes the poetic form from other forms of prose and narrative texts. The language of narrative differs considerably from the language of poetry in terms of both its internal structure and its referential content. The semiotic approach is regarded as one of the most important approaches that have devoted their attention to delineating the features of divergence between creative language and ordinary language, and between the language of poetic discourse and that of narrative discourse. However, semiotic approaches require precision of insight and comprehensiveness of vision, for they are not confined to reading the surface meanings of lexical items and linguistic structures, but rather extend to...