A Semiotic Approach to a Sonnet by Moulana

Semiology as a new approach in literary criticism is used to analyze different works and in the past 50 years i.e since 1964 literary experts have used it so as to analyze various texts. This kind of analysis regarding its range has been used in different scinces and texts. It should be said that creative texts due to using specific signs have been emphasized much more. Semiotic poetry analysis (classic and modern poems) can be a ground for it, and the literary texts can be realized best. This study aims to select the sonnet no. 1 from "Kolliyate Shams" of the Jalala-din-balkhi (edited by forozanfar) and to analyze the signs of literary and mystical as well as the relationship between the signifier and the signified will be clarified. To do it, at first literary semiotics was developed, then a sonnet from "Kolliyate Shams" based on this approach was analyzed. The study method is descriptive – analytical. The sonnet analysis shows that Mowlana didn’t mention the connotation meaning of words or signs, but he used the spiritual meaning and literary meaning in his works. In this sonnet, 21 literary signs and 11 mystical signs were analyzed.