shanfari’s lamiyyatul arab: a semiotic analysis

unlike ordinary language, signs or elements of a literary language tend to develop a loose connection with their innate meanings and conceptions, and there appears to be no logical and natural tie between the words and their possible meanings. this fundamental gap or difference pushes a literary language  further to be dynamic and brings along various vistas for reading. what is important in dealing with this language is studying its linguistic  aspects closely and getting acquainted with aspects that create literature. semiotics and its applications help remarkably to understand this specific language and hues of its underlying meanings deeply and more sensibly. the present study, aims to evaluate shanfari’s lamiyyatul arab through a semiotic-based scrutiny. the result is that studying a work of in the light of semiotics uncovers aesthetic and mysterious and symbolic implications such as  tribe, journey ,beast, desert, wolf, endurance, and cry against oppression in this ode.