en Educational Studies پژوهشي Original <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color:#669933;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><span style="line-height:2;"><b>Objective:</b> This study examines the structure of images and imaginaries of resistance in the poetry of Qeysar Aminpour and Mahmoud Darwish through the lens of Yuri Lotman&rsquo;s cultural semiotics.<span style="font-size:9.0pt"></span><br> <b>Methods</b>: <span lang="EN">A corpus of 64 poetic texts by the two poets was analyzed using an intratextual, comparative, and cultural-analytical approach to clarify the mechanisms of meaning-making in Persian and Arabic resistance poetry.</span><br> <b>Results</b>: <span lang="EN">The analysis shows that core images&mdash;such as soil, blood, the palm/olive tree, and the sun&mdash;play a central role in shaping the discourse of resistance. In Aminpour&rsquo;s poetry, these images are associated with presence, hope, and regeneration, reflecting a faith-centered view of humanity and homeland. In contrast, in Darwish&rsquo;s poetry the same images are framed through memory, absence, and loss, expressing the lived experience of exile and existence within lost or contested borders.</span><br> <b>Conclusions</b>: <span lang="EN">Both poets employ poetic language not merely as a means of emotional expression or protest but as a process of meaning production and the preservation of collective memory. The convergence of Aminpour&rsquo;s and Darwish&rsquo;s intellectual horizons suggests a comparative semiotics of resistance in which resistance is continuously reproduced within cultural and semantic frameworks. The study ultimately highlights two distinct orientations: an ontology of presence in Aminpour&rsquo;s poetry and an ontology of absence in Darwish&rsquo;s poetry, revealing the deep connection between poetic language and the historical memory of nations.</span></span></span></span></span></div> Resistance, Cultural Semiotics, Qeysar Aminpour, Mahmoud Darwish, Imagery of Resistance 0 0 http://ijer.hormozgan.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-548-1&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Ali Mahdavi Parsa 35911603856@iau.ir 10031947532846004879 0009-0004-0523-9376 No Department of Persian Language and Literature, Zah.c, Islamic Azad University, Zahedan, Iran Behrouz Romiani behroz1359@iau.ac.ir 10031947532846004880 10031947532846004880 Yes Department of Persian Language and Literature, Zah. C., Islamic Azad University, Zahedan, Iran Amene Shahbakhsh Ameneh_Shahbakhsh@iau.ac.ir 10031947532846004881 0009-0007-2523-9535 No Department of Persian Language and Literature, kha. c, Islamic Azad University, khash, Iran