Consistency of Resistance and Nature in Mahmoud Darwish’s Poetry in Exile: Critical Reading in Selected Poems
Abstract
The aim of this paper is to explore Mahmoud Darwish’s consistency of resistance and nature to the aggression of homeland occupation of Palestine as depicted in selected poems during his exile. In spite of Darwish exile from Palestine, the sense of resistance and opposition can be elicited from his poetic voice momentum regardless of the wide distance between him and his own homeland. In this research paper, the discussion will mainly focus on how Darwish metaphorically develops Palestinian nature creating a unique world full with righteous and justifiable opposition to the hatred colonizers of his homeland in his selected poems of exile. Theoretically, the framework of this study mainly relied on the postcolonial and the ecocritical theories of reading literature which is defined as an ecoresistance framework. Critically, the implications beyond the various notions of ecoresistance in the exile selected poems by an intellectual giant as Mahmoud Darwish, the researchers expect to provide new insights into man’s interrelation with land as an approach to resist the aggression of colonialism.
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