Exploring the Representation of Homeland in Mahmoud Darwish’s Passport: A Literary Analysis

Abstract

This research discusses the Poem Passport by Mahmoud Darwish appeared in his prominent work “The Leaves of the Olive Tree” in 1946. The objectives of the study are to explore figurative language and imagery and how Palestine is represented in Passport through figurative language and imagery. In this paper, the researchers employ and use the qualitative descriptive approach with Stuart Hall’s theory of representation (1997. Various figurative languages are described in this research by the researchers. They are hyperbole, symbols, metaphors and personification, and types of imagery such as tactile, auditory, visual, and kinesthetic in the poem, Passport. It portrays a person who is anguish and annoyed because his passport is not identified and valued by his enemies. But, he does not show any anger or rage against his enemies and expresses to them that his passport is not a source of identification and recognition for him. The researchers show that in the poem, Passport by Darwish represents Palestine's effort and struggle implicit through figurative language and imagery