Connotative Meaning of " Neshani" Based on the Comibination of Signs

Neshani is one of Sohrab Sepehri’s poems which have attracted the critics more than any piece of his poetry; however, despite frequent criticism, the readers do not yield a convincing interpretation of the poem.
The purpose of this paper is to evaluate and criticize Neshani so as to arrive at an interpretation based on an organic whole. The authors, through discourse analysis and according to the relation of the combination of the signs, endeavor to offer a new reading and interpretation of the poem. To this end, the more significant signs, among others, have been picked out and their relationship with the other signs has been studied in the horizontal axis.
The current analysis proposes a clear interpretation of Neshani. An examination of the poem shows that it holds philosophical and psychoanalytic motifs. The rider’s progress towards eras of pre-Oedipal (maturity) and pre-language (rustle) indicates that Sohrab’s attitude towards human beings and the world resemble the philosophical and psychoanalytic outlook of Freud and Lacan. The phrase of “the branch of light on his lips” signifies language which in Lacan’s panorama regarding psychic growth of the subject expresses ‘symbolic order’ in the infant’s growth. ‘Maturity’ which matches ‘name-of-the-father’ in Lacan’s terminology, along with the ‘infant’, evokes Lacan’s mirror stage to the mind. Furthermore, the mentioned issues and also the term of ‘myths’, which is somehow related to the historical man and collective unconscious of human beings, paves the way for a Jungian and Freudian analysis of the poem.