The study aims at showing the impact of the title and its references in the Iraqi novel as a semantic structure. It carries an intellectual reference as a part of the text strategy that invokes the receiver to enter the world of the text.The study includes analyzing the novel " There is no hope for Gilgamesh", written by the Iraqi novelist Khudayyer AbdulAmeer, whose novel is classified as one of the novels that embodies the heroic action in history. The novelist employed Gilgamesh epic, the odyssey of ancient Iraq. The novel deals with man struggle whose aim is to gain the spell of eternity, that we find the contextual relationship between the text of the epic and the novel text. Behind this the writer's goal hides in making a suggestive relationship between past with all its references and the vivid present, which represents the challenge to ward off the danger of extinction which is a normal result of the human's life.