Semiology of El Quds in the Contemporary Arabic Poetry

Year 2018, Volume: 2 Issue: 1, 30 - 39, 15.06.2018

Azzouz Karboua

Abstract

Poetic discourse has since ever been a kind of whisper that draws our world and discovers our real life and
describes our feelings. it travels to the metaphysics of the human existence to ask knowledgeable and existential
questions and feels the breaches of the society and digs in the human contradictions.

The poetic discourse is a stream that can’t be conjured and flirted with but for a transparent being that makes of
our properties jewelry and reorder things in a ways that leaves us astonished and marveled so it is the golden
medium that gives us life and shakes our beliefs. It lets you think about yourself so as to build a new relationship
with our surrounding.

Poetry taught us that our negative experiences could bear a positive message when it slaps to awake us to revise
ourselves and free the hidden energy in us because of fear and illusion. Poetry is a great means that lets us think,
feel and assimilate in a pleasurable way even when it beats us; because it puts us elegantly in front of problems
that exhaust us and we couldn’t explain. 

Why does poetry do all that to us? … It does it with its imaginary surprises, with its signifying complexities,
symbols, tempo, and with its dramatic energy that tell sufferings and weaknesses of the human being. Yes the
human soul’s sufferings are what makes this sensitive being whispers sometimes and explodes some other times
and pushes us to follow it and swim in its universe. 

Loss is one of the most painful and aching feelings; so lover cries his love and the son cries his parents, and
parents cry their children and so on, However, the loss of one’s motherland is more painful and more aching …
as the Arabic proverb says: “he who loses gold, in the gold market he can find it and he who loses a lover maybe
a year and he will forget and he who loses a motherland where is he supposed to find it ….”

The place where to live (mother country) couldn’t be expelled from the interest of poets and writers. In this
scope we can find a lot of contemporary works of literature that glorifies the motherland or cries it for being far
from it or because of losing it. 

It is difficult to researchers to find a motherland that has been written about and glorified or cried like the Arabs
did with El Quds which became an icon mainly for Arabs. Geographically speaking, el Quds has become a
religious, a historical, a sociological and a political symbol…etc

This study aims at getting closer to some contemporary Arabic poems that made of El Quds a subject to write
about to reveal our pains, aches and expectations. Some of these poems are by Nizar Kabani, Tamim El
Barghouti, Mahmoiud Darwiche…etc adopting a methodology that enables us to deal with El Quds in the poetic
discourse in a way that leads us to extract many significances relying on the semiotic that seeks into the
significance and its production and the means used to reach it. 

Keywords

Semiology of El Quds, Contemporary Arabic Poetry, To lose the motherland

References

• -أهمية القدس في الوعي العربي خاصة و اإلنساني عامة.
• 2 -القدس تحمل دالالت نفسية و تاريخية و دينية تتنوع بتنوع الذات التي تتعاطى معها، و األيديولوجيا التي تتبناها.
• 3 -البنية األسلوبية لقصائد القدس جاءت بسيطة في بنائها اللغوي، لكونها شكلت ترجمة تلقائية لمشاعر و حاالت نفسية اشترك جميعها في األسى و األلم، لهذا جاءت - رغم ذلك - أكثر صدقا و عمقا و أبلغ تأثير.