Suggestive role of phonemes and structures in the process of production of the meaning Case study: Ahmad Shamloo

Ahmad Shamloo, one of the Iranian contemporary poets, has a very short poem with remarkable hidden potentials. At first glance, the brevity and the simplicity of this poem may lead readers to underestimate its true value and the critics to ignore the impact of its analysis. But this article is determined to reveal how this brilliant poet has succeeded to create within few words, a newfound image for a worn and deadened notion which is the fatigue and disappointment. To prove this claim, first we studied the suggestive role of phonemes, armed by the theories of French linguist and phonetician: Maurice Grammont. And then, by dint of a structural analysis, based on the theories of Roman Jakobnson, the famous Russian linguist, we found out that the parallelism is the key factor of this poem which creates its poles and so the possibility of a circular movement. This movement leads to the idea of an independent whole, which is the ultimate purpose of all artistic and literal productions. The guarantor of this unity is the body of the enunciator. A semiotic analysis helped at last to see how this body provides, with his sensations, the rhythm and the direction of the meaning. Due to its evocable phonemes and its parallel structure, this poem awakens sensations of the enunciator’s body and leads him toward the production of a peerless meaning.