The poetics of familiarization and difference: In ?Hamaziyat Hassan Ibn Thabet?: Between the shock of receiving and the semiotic actualization

Objectives: This study aimed to explore the manifestations of the impact of the shock of receiving, in ancient and modern studies, on the recipients of Hamziyat Hassan ibn Thabit. Then the study proceeded to the actualization of the text through a semiotic interpretive approach, in order to decipher its codes and explore its deep poetic meanings. Methods: This study relied on the aesthetic theory of reception, in order to investigate the effects of the shock of reception, as well as on the semiotic approach in the interpretation of the text. Results: The study revealed the aesthetic distance between the horizon of the text and the horizon of its recipients in ancient and modern Arab criticism, and explored the effects that this led to, such as deletion of some the Hamziah verses, relying on news, and referential and inferential fallacies in approaching and interpreting the text. Then the study proceeded to the actualization of the text by a new semiotic interpretive approach, thus, deciphered its codes, pursuit its sign and deep poetic meanings. Conclusions: This study explored the semiotics of ruins, the semiotics of women and wine, and it revealed the deep structural and semantic relationships involved in the passages of the text, and the flow of meanings that this led to. Keywords: familiarization, shock, receiving, semiotic, ruins, women, wine.