The Stages of Textual Perception in Sepehrie's Poetry: Based on Beaugrande & Dressler's Approach

The current research، taking into account three standards of Beaugrande & Dressler’s textual-cognitive model i. e. cohesion، coherence، intertextuality، explains the four-fold stages of textual perception in Sohrab Sepehrie''s poetic collection Zendegi-ye Khwabhâ (Dreams’ Life). The aim of the study is to find a new analytical method of the contemporary poetry that is identified through the text hence; it is a collection of identical and mental processes that gradually ring forth the method of understanding and stages of perception to readers. Based on the above model، this study elaborates on a quadric procedure، consisting of parsing، concept recovery، idea recovery and plan recovery for perceiving Sepehrie’s poetry. Here، “parsing” is achieved through collocation; “concept recovery”، through finding the schema; “idea recovery” through taking a sequence of actions and looking for background knowledge and intertextuality; and finally the “plan recovery” through attachment. In other words، a receiver arrives at sequence of actions following collocations that fills the gap in the text and discovers the poet’s schema through sharing his/her background information with instances of intertextuality. Sepehrie succeeded in expressing his metaphysical experiences in a compact way through repeating and describing a chain schema via appealing to surrealism and mysticism as elements of intertextuality.