فكره الموت والوانه في شعر سميح القاسم

The Concept of Death and Its Forms in Samih al-Qasim’s Poetry

Certainly death is a big concern for mankind. Surely man deals with death just as an ideology he believes in it. Death is one of the main subjects in Samih Al-Qasim’s poetry, because he has given special attention to death. This study attempts to examine Samih Al-Qasim’s ideology about his attitude towards death, just as it intends to reveal his formed motives about this subject because his aesthetic view about death strengthens the resistance mentality in Palestinians that it causes the imagination of death change their ideas. So in poet’s opinion death is considered as a commitment in political, native, national and individual aspects. This research is based on descriptive and analytic method and concentrated on the text of poems. Studying death dimensions and its forms in this poet’s works, makes clear for us that the poet worked on this problem in two levels: individually or collectively, so we studied these two levels in political, national or racial problems, and we discovered his aesthetic view about the words related to death and its expressions, that the poet relies on them to state the situation of occupation. Samih Al-Qasim has obtained the expressions of constancy and bravery from the concept of death. In the text of his poems we observe a strong correlation among native, political, national and humane cases through the concept of ideological death. Therefore in poet’s opinion death is a life. In addition, we experience an aesthetic attitude about death in intertextuality, myth, personification and paradox methods!