Emotional Desire Semiotics in Khulayyif al-Ghālb's An Unnoticeable Desert Poem Collection

Abstract

Adopting a desire semiotic approach, the present study investigates desires in Khulayyif al-Ghālb's An Unnoticeable Desert Poem Collection, with an aim of finding answers as to how passionate desires are manifested in the poem collection. The study is organized into an introduction highlighting the background of the approach, and two sections. The first section is concerned with studying the manifestations of passions, with particular focus on complaint, melancholy, and anxiety emotions. The second section discusses the manifestations of the passionate love. The study concluded that the collection An Unnoticeable Desert depicted emotions as a unique experience by which human beings are influenced in both discourse and deeds. Boredom predominated all other emotions in the poem collection, under which other feelings of anxiety, melancholy and complaint came. As for the passionate desire, the role of emotions was accurately depicted, where the self is fully aware of all emotional consequences, projecting superficial emotional manifestations and controlling them.