Yeats&apos;s Ireland, Darwish&apos;s Palestine: The National in the Personal, Mystical, and Mythological

Tahrir Hamdi, null

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Yeats's Ireland, Darwish's Palestine: The National in the Personal, Mystical, and Mythological

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Author(s): Tahrir Hamdi

Publication date (Print): Spring 2014

Journal: Arab Studies Quarterly

Publisher: Pluto Journals

Keywords: William Butler Yeats, Mahmoud Darwish, Ireland, Palestine, national, mythological

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William Butler Yeats's and Mahmoud Darwish's poetic oeuvres can safely be said to have contributed significantly to building distinct national consciousnesses for their respective nations of Ireland and Palestine. These poets have equipped themselves with unique repertoires, which include the personal, the mystical, and the mythological, not to escape into a more ideal or abstract world, but to create anew their homelands, which have been placed under political, social, cultural, and in Darwish's case, geographical erasure by oppressive imperialist/Zionist invaders and occupiers. Both poets take on their roles as politician/artist/magician seriously by using hypnotic and other magical techniques in order to focus their people's psyches on the idea of cultural and national liberation. The poetry of both Yeats and Darwish shows poignantly how a poet can embody the nation and how poetry can indeed make something happen.

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Publication date (Print): Spring 2014

Volume: 36

Issue: 2

Pages: 92-106

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[1] Akash, Munir (2000). Introduction. In The Adam of Two Edens , ed. Mahmoud Darwish and Munir Akash. Syracuse, NY: Jusoor and Syracuse University Press.

[2] Akash, Munir (2003). Glossary. In Unfortunately, It Was Paradise . Trans. and ed. Munir Akash and Carolyn Forche (with Sinan Antoon and Amira El-Zein). Berkeley, CA and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press.

[3] Antoon, Sinan (2008). “Farewell Mahmoud Darwish.” Al-Ahram Weekly Online. 14–20 August. Web. Accessed June 28, 2013. <weekly.ahram.org.eg/2008/910/fr1.htm>.

[4] Auden, W. H. (1940). “In Memory of W. B. Yeats.” Poets.org from the Academy of American Poets 1997–2013. Web. Accessed July 15, 2013. <www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15544>.

[5] Cleary, Joe (2002). Literature, Partition and the Nation State Culture and Conflict in Ireland, Israel and Palestine . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

[6] Darwish, Mahmoud (2000). The Adam of Two Edens , ed. Munir Akash and Daniel Moore. Syracuse: Jusoor and Syracuse University Press.

[7] Darwish, Mahmoud (2003). Unfortunately, It Was Paradise . Trans. and ed. Munir Akash and Carolyn Forche (with Sinan Antoon and Amira El-Zein). Berkeley, CA and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press.

[8] Doggett, Rob (2002). Mixing Everything at the Beginning: Telling Stories about Empire in Yeats's on Baile's Strand. Modern Drama , 45(4), 545–566.

[9] Handal, Nathalie (2002). “Mahmoud Darwish: Palestine's Poet of Exile.” The Progressive . May. Web. Accessed June 28, 2013. <progressive.org/node/1575>.

[10] Howes, Marjorie (1996). Yeats's Nations . New York: Cambridge University Press.

[11] Larrissy, Edward (1997a). Introduction. In The Major Works , ed. W. B. Yeats. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

[12] Larrissy, Edward (1997b). Notes. In The Major Works , ed. W. B. Yeats. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

[13] Mayo Clinic Staff (2012). “Hypnosis Definition.” Web. Accessed July 10, 2013. <http://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/hypnosis/basics/definition/PRC-20019177>.

[14] Pappe, Ilan (2006). The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine . Oxford: Oneworld Publications.

[15] Ramazani, Jahan and Hena, Omaar (2010–2013). “Imagining Ireland: Texts and Contexts.” The Norton Anthology of English Literature: Norton Topics Online . Web. Accessed July 10, 2013. <www.wwnorton.com/college/english/nael/20century/topic_3_05/>.

[16] Regan, Stephen (2006). W.B. Yeats: Irish Nationalism and Post-Colonial Theory. Nordic Irish Studies , 5, 87–99.

[17] Regan, Stephen (2010). Chapter Six: Later Poetry. In W. B. Yeats: Irish Writers in Their Time , ed. Edward Larrissy. Dublin and Portland, OR: Irish Academic Press.

[18] Said, Edward (1994). Culture and Imperialism . London: Vintage.

[19] Shaheen, Mohammad (2009). Introduction in Almond Blossoms and beyond Mahmoud Darwish . Trans. Mohammad Shaheen. Northampton, MA: Interlink Publishing Group, Inc.

[20] Soyinka, Wole (2008). A Night in Ramallah. Banipal Magazine of Modern Arab Literature , 33(Autumn/Winter), 24–25.

[21] Yeats, W. B. (1997). The Major Works . Oxford: Oxford University Press.