The poem "Hakayt" by Ahmad Shamlou, as a modern narrative, is a platform for rereading the transformation of values. The present research by using the descriptive-analytical method and adapting of semiotics tools and passing from the "program-orientation" system to the "adaptation" system of Eric Landofsky shows how the value system is transformed in the context of the discourse in the studied poem.
The findings of the research indicates that the change in the sensory-perceptual approach of the hunter activist and his co-presence with the deer leads to the transformation of values. Trough appearance of the emotional component of "kindness" the profit-seeking attitude of the hunter, who seeks to kill the deer with a program-oriented discourse system loses its importance and the deer is elevated to the level of transcendental meta value.
The analysis of confrontation reveals the semantic square, the axis of substitution/coexistence and the axis of tension that the moment of encounter between the subject and the other creates a vivid and unique experience in which the boundaries of me/other collapse. This co-presence not only replaces the meta-value of life with the profit value, but it also transforms the meaning from the abstract level to the emotional-sensual level together the ethics of presence at the phenomenological level.
The transformation process clearly shows that Shamlou`s poetry goes beyond the classic hunting narrative to represent a discourse of freedom, transformation of values and empathy.