الحزن والفقد في ديوان "لا بدّ من حيفا" للشاعر الفلسطيني عبد الناصر صالح

Abstract

Abdel Nasser Saleh is one of the most prominent contemporary Palestinian national poets. He is known for the great and distinguished value of his poetic literary production, all produced under the yoke and prisons of the occupation. Sadness and loss take central positions in his poetry, especially in his last poetry collection, Lā Budda min Ḥaifā [Haifa is a Necessity]. The collection contains new and old poems, which have been written over the last forty years of Abdel Nasser Saleh’s life. Many of the poems are addressed to his friends and family whom he had lost either through prison, death, or migration. The use of the words death and loss and their implications have deep connotations throughout the collection, and they are employed in a way that provokes the reader to relate to his existential state of sadness and despair. This study analyses the poems that appear in Abdel Nasser Saleh’s collection, Lā Budda min Ḥaifā, by employing a descriptive and analytical approach focusing on the themes of sadness and loss.