A Semio-Semantic Analysis of the Poem “Rain”

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Semio-Semantics is the outcome of the interrelation between Structural and Post-structural linguistics. This approach believes that formation of meaning is a very complicated process in which many semantic factors are involved: the discursive actant incessantly reviews the semantic boundaries and creates a dynamic, multifaceted system of signs which is the result of the adjusting the emotions, perception and cognition. This article examines the sensual-perceptual process, and the aesthetic mechanism of the poem “Rain” by Golchin Gilāni and concludes that “rain”, as a mediator sign, through the formation an sensual-perceptive relation, creates a process that isolates the poet from his “I”, integrates it with transcendental “I” and thus attains the “secret of immortality” and “ideal being”.

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