The Place Debate in Saadi Yusuf's Speech (A semi-structural reading in the poem "Take the Snow Rose Take the Kairouania ")

Abstract

"Take the Snow Rose Take the Kairouania" by Saadi Youssef, a poetic model that depicts the suffering of contemporary man in the context of civil society and the negative results that prevent him from looking forward to the bright future.  The poem is a human cultural speech that embodies the poet’s fictional journey from the city to his virtuous Medina, the Kairouan, because of the new civilized reality that made him feel alienated.  This study examines the case, which portrays a terrible paradox between the backward city and the exodus of human freedom, its intellectual rites, and the countryside, which indicate spatial alienation. This poem consists of 10 narratives with dramatic dimensions and the title contains the semantic meaning and embodies the chapeau of the text. The poet employed here the vocabulary and structure of the epistemological transport and the many strategies to portray his feelings. One of the most important of these strategies is the synonym or textual strategy, which is a symbolic aggregation that is subject to the poetic text and its meaning to the recipient. It also makes the text more vital and effective and adds some objectivity to the text. The study adopted this approach to the curriculum structuralist semiotics to reveal the hidden poetic text, which is full of symbols, indications, and references. One of the objectives of this critical approach is to present a transparent picture of the features of the contemporary place in Saadi Yusuf's speech.