The Aesthetics of Place in 'Mahmoud Darwish's “La Taatather Amma Fa'alt
Abstract in English:
This study deals with the aesthetics of place in 'Mahmoud
Darwish's La Taatather Amma Fa'alt (Do Not Apologize for What You
Have Done". The study focuses on three aspects: the poet's psychological
and emotional relationship with the place, the aesthetics of closed place,
and the aesthetics of open space. Utilizing the stylistic and statistical
method, the study explained that the place constitutes an integral element
in the structure of the Darwish poem and that it has been especially
employed by Darwish to reflect his vision of the humanity in General and
the Palestinian in particular given the agony, trauma and expatriation the
Palestinian has been subjected to on his land and abroad. The study
found two sorts of relationship between the poet and the places he has
been associated with concluding that his relationship with the place was
one of belonging, nostalgia and communion while that with open places
was one of dissociation, repugnance and fear of the unknown.