A Semiotic Touch upon AbuTammam's Poetic Colors

This research deals with Abutamaam’s look at colors and what is related to them. This paper divides colors into light and dark colors including white, black, red, pink, green, mixed colors and secondary colors in the poems of his odes(Qasidahs) to indicate their significations. It is clear that Abutammaam used colors to show his feelings and to color his poems with various verbal indicators. He usescolors in his poems for a lot of purposes like pun, metaphor, and other kinds of figurative language. Colors are used for verbal beauty and to add new meanings. Moreover, all three types of semiotic signifiers including intellectual, natural andpositional, can be found in his poems so that they play an important role in revealing secondary and hidden meanings; and showing the complex and ambiguous significations. Finally, it became known that Abutamaam is a creative poet and artist who has been able to mix various colors to achieve new colors which include new semantic indications. This mixture displays the state of the mind of the poem too. This artistic process is presented in a dignified style.