مجلة الواحات للبحوث و الدراسات
Volume 19, Numéro 1, Pages 212-228
2026-06-01

The Similarities Between Reality And Myth In Mahmoud Darwish’s Poetry

Authors : Atmani Karima . Ben Sayah Lakhdar .

Abstract

The dialectic of the relationship between myth and reality in the poetry of the great poet Mahmoud Darwish, whom he considers a creative and visionary tool that enabled the poet to transcend the limits of the historical moment toward a universal human horizon. Darwish did not employ myth as a static heritage, but as a symbolic force that he reshaped to meet the demands of his poetic and political experience, endowing it with meanings of resistance, revival, and immortality, using multiple mythical symbols that embody the Palestinian existential struggle between loss and resurrection.

Keywords

Myth – Mahmoud Darwish – Symbols – Resurrection – Collective Consciousness