شعرية العتبات في ديوان (انطفاء الألوان)‎ للشاعر العراقي رعد السيفي

Abstract EN

In this paper, the researcher attempts to provide a practical interactive approach to the analysis of the Thresholds in the Iraqi poet, Raad Al-Saifi’s Extinction of Colors: structure, function and significance, exploring the resources of the poem’s poetics and investigating its role in clarifying some of the hidden aspects of the Poetics of this Collection of Poems.

The analysis employs the mechanisms of semiotic criticism via two levels of reading: horizontal and vertical.

The former reading focuses on the Threshold’s structure syntactically and lexically.

It also aims at detecting the Threshold’s structural components.

The vertical reading, however, aims to correlate the Threshold with the text of the book as a whole in order to detect the semantic substitutional component.

Due to its nature, the subject matter has been tackled as follows: i) Introduction, ii) External Thresholds (title of the book, cover, next page of the casing, initial epigraph) and iii) Internal Thresholds (text thresholds): (titles/subtitles, epigraphs and dates).