The application of Riffaterre's semiotic model in the reading of poetry

One of researchers in the semiotics of poetry is ýRiffaterre. Developing his structuralist ideas, Riffaterre devoted his later career to the reception theory and is known as a ýhermeneutic structuralist. Using Riffaterre's model in reading poetry, ýilluminates important notes about the creation of poetic texts as well as its recreation by the ýreader. Hence, this article is based on a reading of poem by Shamloo. Analysis of ýthis poem indicates that it is a result of an expansion of a matrix and its ýsignificance is consequently dependent on this matrix. This matrix, which signifies the ýtransference of human being from this world to the other world, is firstly divided into three ýdistinct topics, i.e. transference, this world, and the other world. Each topic is then expanded ýthrough such techniques as accumulation, descriptive systems, and textual space. This ýresearch, also, reveals that poetry, in the process of reading, transcends from a mimetic level ýto a semiotic level where the significance of the poem could be ýunderstood. ý