Seyyed Heydar Shirazi

Semiotics is a scientific discipline focused on understanding the fundamental principles of signs and indications. This concept is considered one of the prominent theories in logic. The main focus of semiotics is to explain what semiotics entails. The deviation of explicit signification and the provision of an implicit interpretation or image of a sign represent the most significant function of semiotics. Following this, we explore the symbol of the the contemporary poetry of several Arabic and Persian poets. In the meantime, we have selected a sample of contemporary poems by prominent poets from Arabic and Persian literature as the scope of this research. This study, conducted using a descriptive-analytical method, examines both contemporary Arabic and Persian poetry to explore the implicit semantic meanings of "swallow" as a symbol. For this purpose, we aim to analyze the new signs associated with "swallow" as a symbol and reveal the positive and negative aspects and factors that have shaped these signs in the poems of contemporary Arabic and Persian poets. Therefore, the actual present research includes both positive and negative implications of the swallow. However, the research findings show that this bird plays an essential role in expressing poets' social and personal concerns and has conveyed such implications as freedom, repatriation, and fertility through thr "swallow" sign. In the following use of the swallow symbol, poets exhibit a more positive attitude than a negative one, which is reflected in their poems.