Narration and its Function in Poetry of Nimā: A Focus on Semiology of Ghoghnoos

Nimā’s Ghooghnoos plays an essential role in the formation of Persian modern poetry, and besides its literary values, can be considered a turning point in Nimā’s way of narrating that was so remarkably influential in the works of the poets to come. This article through combining some techniques of narratology and semiology, firstly performs a quantitative and qualitative investigation on the signs and codes of Ghoghnoos, and secondly, analyses the narrative elements of the poem. The results of the research negate the idea that Nimā is totally a Romantic poet before writing Ghoghnoos and absolutely a Symbolist after that; meanwhile they prove that narratives of his latest poems are richer, more concise and more internalized.