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Palestinian writer (1941–2008)

Mahmoud Darwish (Arabic: مَحمُود دَرْوِيْش, romanized: Maḥmūd Darwīsh; 13 March 1941 – 9 August 2008) was a Palestinian poet and author who was regarded as Palestine's national poet.

In 1988 Darwish wrote the Palestinian Declaration of Independence, which was the formal declaration for the creation of a State of Palestine. Darwish won numerous awards for his works. In his poetic works, Darwish explored Palestine as a metaphor for the loss of Eden, birth and resurrection, and the anguish of dispossession and exile. He has been described as incarnating and reflecting "the tradition of the political poet in Islam, the man of action whose action is poetry." He also served as an editor for several literary magazines in Israel and the Palestinian territories. Darwish wrote in Arabic, and also spoke English, French, and Hebrew.

Biography

Mahmoud Darwish was born in 1941 in al-Birwa in the Western Galilee, the second child of Salim and Houreyyah Darwish. His family were landowners. His mother was illiterate, but his grandfather taught him to read. During the Nakba, his village was captured by Israeli forces and the family fled to Lebanon, first to Jezzine and then Damour. Their home village was razed and destroyed by the IDF to prevent its inhabitants from returning to their homes inside the new Jewish state.

A year later Darwish's family returned to the Acre area in Israel, and se

IJARSCT ISSN (Online) 2581-9429 International Journal of Advanced Research in Science, Communication and Technology (IJARSCT) Impact Factor: 6.252 Volume 2, Issue 1, March 2022 Philosophy of Exile, Identity and Alienation: A Study of Mahmoud Darwish’s Poetry Dr. Mukhtar Ahmad Sheergojri1 and Nisar Ahmad Kumar2 Lecturer Contractual Department of Higher Education, Jammu and Kashmir, India Abstract: In Mahmoud Dervish’s poetry, the notion of exile and expatriate is not a personal choice but is forced upon him by the tyrannical social and political catastrophes which the people of the soil of Palestine had combated in 1948 fatality. Exile is state of being barred from one's native country, typically for political or punitive reasons as it is the antipode of homeland and appeals the use of motivation between separation from one’s homeland and soil and the demand and desire to reestablish. Among these motifs are reminiscennce, craving, restoration, and obscurity. Mahmoud Dervish used the theme of exile as an emotive response; for the contemporaray Palestinian poets exile is restricted to exodus, going away from home land, nostalgia. ,and it does not exceed the bounds of these sentimental meanings, while in Mahmoud Derwish’s poetry it has a vast connotation and inferred meaning which includes sense of identity ,seclusion and alienation, he depicts the exile as an existential state. In this study we would describe the perception of Exile, Identity and alienation in Derwish’s selected poetry. Keywords: Motif, Reminiscence Identity, Alienation, Resistance I. INTRODUCTION Alienation, solitude and seclusion are the customary and well recognized motif’s in the poetry of Mahmoud Darwish and this subject is well defined as sentimental insulation or segregation from others or as a way of thinking in exodus. In some of the poems of Mahmoud Darwish, which are to be discussed in the paper is

Literature is often used as a means to express grievances notably of national character. In Palestine, this has been carried out fully by Mahmoud Darwish. Indeed, as many people throughout history have been subjugated to a stronger group, the Palestinians have been so to the Israelis. The Palestinians believe that they have been forced to become second-class citizens in their native lands. The famous poet Mahmud Darwish (1942-2008), being one of them, has been exploring themes related to this situation in his poetry. He is Palestine’s foremost national poet.

Mahmud Darwish is considered as one of the leading Palestinian poets of the twentieth century to transmit his personal experience, to which many Palestinians can identify themselves. His personal experiences had greatly affected him and were the catalysts for his poetic imagination and voice. Darwish, through his personal experiences, felt cut off from the entirety of the Arab world and as if he was a second-class citizen in a Jewish state. He felt as if he had to fight to maintain his Palestinian identity. His personal experience that overlapped with the experiences of so many Palestinians owed him the qualification of a “national poet”.

Darwish is a Palestinian poet who was born in 1942, Birwa, Palestine (now Israel). He was the son of a farmer His family fled Israel’s war of independence in 1948 and spent a year as refugees in Lebanon, before returning to Israel. Their original village had been destroyed and replaced by a Jewish settlement, so the family settled in a new village nearby, in Galilee. Darwish’s formerly wealthy father was forced to work in a quarry to support the large family. Darwish married twice. His first was to Rana Kabbani.

Darwish had led the typical life of many Palestinians of the 1940’s- exile. He had been