My Beloved Rise from Her Sleep

The poems of the poet Mahmoud Darwish in his collection entitled “My Beloved Rise from Her Sleep” refer to a dialectical relationship between the love of the land and the love of women, as a fluctuating emotional, psychological and affective state, with a tendency to achieve and affirm the individual self / of the poet.

In the poem with which the poet opens his work, we read: …. All the women of pure language / My beloved .. / When spring comes / The rose is exiled on her chest / From every basin dreaming of returning / And I am still lost in her body / Like the flavor of the land that does not get lost ….. In this poem, the repetition of vocabulary is built from the poet’s voice, through which he tried to create a distinctive and special musical atmosphere that spreads a certain meaning, especially since he repeats the word my beloved in several sections My beloved all the lilies and vocabulary / Why do you die before me / Far from death and memories / And from the home of my family? …. In this sense, the title of the collection has a specific meaning and purpose, carrying the message of the text, rather it is the focus of the text and its key, and one of the expressions Possible about it, which helps to know what the poet’s purpose is about, his inner world, and to discover it as well.

The collection includes seven prose poems that came under the following titles: “My Beloved Wakes Up from Her Sleep”, “I Come to the Shadow of Your Eyes”, “Writing by the Light of a Gun”, “Diary of a Palestinian Wound”, “The Bridge”, “Passport”, and “The Man with the Green Shadow”