The Poetic embodiment of freedom in Mahmoud’s Darwish’s Poetry

 
        There is an inseparable link between poetry and freedom which extends back to the relationship between poetry and the history of humanity. In its essence, poetry represents a sublime representation of the conflict between the need to establish limits and restrictions and to organize life, which is a necessity of survival and urbanization, and the need for partial or total escape from these limits.
        Mahmoud Darwish (1941-2008) is one of the leading Arab and Palestinian poets whose poetry tackled the issue of freedom extensively who was concerned with the crisis of his homeland during his stay in Palestine and his exile. His poems assert his poetic mastery that transcends the dilemma of the status quo without ignoring current Arab and Palestinian impasse, transforming the tragedy into an epic of resistance overcoming despair.
       The paper is divided into an introduction and five sections. The first is entitled “Missing Freedom and the Lost Homeland”. The second section tackles “Time and the Poetic Structure of Freedom Poems”, whereas the third deals with “Place and the Poetic Structure of Freedom Poems”. After that, the paper discusses “The Embodiment of Freedom and the Symbolism of Colours”. The final section deals with “The Poetic Language of Freedom” and this is followed by the conclusion and the list of references.