Saudi Flag in the Flag Day’s Poetry. A Semiotic Study

Abstract

In response to the Saudi government’s declaration of designating the date March 11th as an official Flag Day, this study employs the semiotic approach in the communication and semantics to describes and analyses the different poets’ readings and their emphasis on some of significant connotations towards the symbols of Saudi Flags as indicated in the blog ‘Diwan Al-Alam’. The study concludes that the poets’ direct reading of the Flag’s symbols relies mainly on the referential function to refer to the connotations with transparency and clarity, while their technical readings depend on the poetic function that inserts the pleasure for causing a greater impact. Moreover, their technical readings take the manifestations of semantic expansion, portrayal and novelty as a support for the poetic functions. The most symbols occurred in the poets’ readings are Greenery, whiteness, sword, and the word of monotheism.

Keywords: Flag, Poetry, Symbol, Semiotic