Alienation and belonging in the poetry of Mahmoud Darwish An analytical study

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Alienation is one of the most prominent phenomena of the modern era. The individual lives in a state of conflict between himself and his environment accompanied by a feeling of social isolation, anxiety and sadness. Belonging is a noble emotion together because it is a true translation of the organic link between the citizen and his country, the necessity of working on his development and defense. Mahmoud Darwish's poems have combined a sense of alienation with a sense of belonging to his homeland, until his poems carry the meanings of love, pride and nostalgia for him, as the recipient stands in front of a flood of emotions that embody the poet's emotion and self-esteem. In his mind the extent of his nostalgia for his homeland and his hope to return to him, by mentioning his sad feelings that express his grumbling about alienation, and his gloomy sense of brutality, insecurity, comfort and tranquility, and his dismay from the separation of parents and loved ones, and thirst for the days of childhood and companionship of parents and loved ones, and naturally To gather in the chest these gloomy sensations, and their dark meanings, and vary the means of expression for alienation in his youth and adulthood, so he succeeded in the youth stage to use the words of anger, fire, revolution and so on, methods of repetition and unreal questioning, while delinquency to news methods and real question and In his old age, he embodied the flames of alienation, hardship and sorrow, and kept repeating them until his last breath, to convey his own experience of alienation, which awakened the emotion of his oppressed people, and spread the spirit of resistance, and strengthened his sense of pride, dignity and national belonging.

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