This study seeks to interrogate one of the Arab creative arts, based on: “Illusion”, through a modernist treatment that takes into account the originality of this art and its characteristics, and at the same time evokes the ancient reading projections that dealt with it , in order to compare the old data and the modern given in the approach, with a departure from stereotypes and traditional attempts to analyze the pun based on the common word that the creator deliberately employs in a context that makes the recipient imagine one of its meanings included under it in the language. Our reading was based on the axes of structure and substitution, the basis of the poetic function to reach the meanings of Illusion, as an alternative reading of the heritage that says the near meaning and the distant meaning in its analysis, and then the focus shifts In this attempt from the creator as the controller of the meaning, to the recipient as a player on the strings of the Illusion, and a beneficiary of the two axes of the poetic function to capture the truth of the meaning and its aesthetics In addition to its backgrounds.

Arabic rhetoric, illustration, linguistics, stylistics, the axes of poetic function, Aesthetics of language.