Mohamad Yaghoubi; Rasoul Zare
Abstract
Exile is a concept that appears in the language of the poet, after experience of lack of freedom and lack of physical connection with the homeland. Izz al-Din al-Monaserah is a poet ...
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Exile is a concept that appears in the language of the poet, after experience of lack of freedom and lack of physical connection with the homeland. Izz al-Din al-Monaserah is a poet whose exile gave a special structure to his poetic language. Exile in an invisible dialectic intensifies the poet’s language and it is this fact that leads to the production of a particular language. This article tries to determine the number of Monaserah’s poems that have exile as their thematic element. Our Statistical data and diagrams proved that the use of the concept of exile in his poetry is the most frequent when genocide and the massacre of Palestinian refugees take place in Tal Zatar and Al-Qarnatina. Here, a significant relationship between poetic language and reality is proved. The metaphysics of Palestine in exile has replaced its physics and the poet’s mental-spiritual living place. Homeland is not just a concept, but a formidable metaphysics of ideas and concepts that completely dominates the poet’s mind. He is not merely in physical exile, but his essence his thought are forced into exile too. Exile is part of the life of Palestinian poets, and and this concept is represented in Monaserah’s poetry through imagery. To determine how this concept appears in the poetic language of Monaserah is a necessity since the comprehension of his poetry depends on it. Rebellion against occupation and fighting for a dignified life are among the causes of the poet’s exile. Living as in exile in one’s homeland and living in exile with love and sorrow of the homeland give birth to the poetic language that we see in his literature of exile.
