النثر في الشعر صور من التفاعل في تجربة محمود درويش

Abstract

This paper tackles the importing of prose features into verse. For illustration, the paper refers to the late Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, with applications on some of his poetry. Darwish has demonstrated his awareness of prose's positive elements, and he actually benefited from that resource by helping himself to those elements. One may notice this aspect in several of Darwish's verse collections, especially those issued after the mid-eighties of the twentieth century. The present research focuses on the narrative prose style as it figures in Darwish's elegies – he well tapped there the resources and features of prose narrative, as for instance the prose narrative's openness to actual reality and day-to-day events. Another feature of prose narrative that Darwish borrows is in having the active units of his poems as paragraphs rather than independent lines. One may refer for this to his collection Wardun Aqall: Less Flowers. The research takes up a particular feature: Darwish's endeavor to come close to prose rhythm, when he makes do with just one foot pattern 'fa'oolon' all through whole collections of poetry. As a conclusion, the paper finds that Darwish has sought to apply an aphorism put forth by al-Tawhidi in the twelfth century: "The best of styles is that which is prose most akin to verse and verse most akin to prose." However, the researcher will contend that this rule of al-Tawhidi's has remained an unconsummated aspiration with Darwish: his overruling poetic talent and spontaneous rhythm are the salient feature of his last poetry.