Anbar University Journal of Languages & Literature

Abstract

This study is an attempt to investigate the connotations of colour from the psychological side in the ode of Zuhair Bin Abi Salma, as it delved into the depths of the meanings, looking for what colour can suggest, based on the apparent meaning. Then to move away from this meaning until the reach of what the poet feels from the meaning of each colour, I have followed the colours that were mentioned in the ode, whether those colours came at the level of verbal declaration or at the level of colour synonyms, this was done by extrapolating and analyzing the evidence, and the colour axes were concentrated in: (black, red, and blue), the aim was to identify the effectiveness of colour and its function in the poetic context; Because it is the context that determines the significance by its interaction with the general meaning of the house or the main idea of the subject, from the study it is revealed that clear is not limited to being a visual phenomenon only, but it has gone beyond that to mental, philosophical, aesthetic, tasteful, emotional, and psychological connotations, it also has another connotation that may be similar to the fixed connotations or differ according to the context. The attention in this study was focused on psychological connotation.