THE IMAGE OF THE MARTYR IN THE PALESTINIAN RESISTANCE POETRY

Abstract

All nations and societies need someone to defend them, protect them, and repel aggression and injustice, so that these sacrifices become the torch of freedom, the beacon of pride, and the throne of pride. And this testimony adds to him a human, patriotic and sanctity value, thus elevating his position among his people and his people. He who sees himself as part of his society, his issues are his cause, and his pain is his pain. With the catastrophe of Palestine in 1948, and the setback of June 1967, the Palestinian resistance appeared carrying weapons, believing in the principle of liberation by force, and alongside this resistance, Palestinian resistance poetry appeared, which supported the armed resistance with the literary poetic word, and gave a great space, and great attention to the cause of the Palestinian martyr who sacrificed the cause of the Palestinian martyr. The research aims to clarify the poetic image of the martyr in the Palestinian resistance poetry, and the motive for this is the status of the martyr in Arab thought on the one hand, and the status of the Palestinian cause, and its specificity among the Palestinians, Arabs, and Muslims on the one hand, and the international community on the other. The importance of the research lies in its goal and motive. The researcher will follow the descriptive and analytical approaches, and will clarify the concept of the martyr, and the testimony, and will address the image of the martyr with description and analysis of some poets of the Palestinian resistance, such as Mahmoud Darwish, Samih Al-Qasim, and others