Analyzing Sign-Semantic Schema in the Discourse of “In the Waves of the Sand” and “Abd al-Sabar” Poems

The study of hegemonic semantics shows how the signs take their transcendental path and serve the hegemonic meanings. The purpose of this study is to investigate the formation, production, and reception of meaning in the field of sustainability literature. In this regard, the hegemony in the two resistance-oriented poems by Mehdi Hamidi Shirazi entitled "In the waves of the sand" and the poem "Abd al-Sabar" composed by Mahmoud Darvish was examined. Sign-semantic study of these two discourses shows how two poets, using cultural, national, and local backgrounds and archives, produce resistance-oriented meanings, distancing themselves from existing and known contexts and confronting the narrator with unexpected elements. Other findings of the study include the existence of two identical value systems, which is the praise of freedom and liberty. This value system is in the mechanisms of production in the scheme of emotional discourse in order to establish the prevailing hegemony, that is, to praise stability and freedom in society, and to marginalize other concepts.