Vol. 5 No. 2 (2021)
Articles

Literary Resistance, A Vehement Discourse against Colonial Occupation: A Comparative Study of the Select Poems of Seamus Heaney and Mahmoud Darwish

Published 2022-03-03

Keywords

  • Colonial Occupation, Ireland, Palestine, Poignancy, Literary Resistance, Trauma

Abstract

Irish Seamus Heaney and Palestinian Mahmoud Darwish are certainly the two remarkable poets of the Modern Literary World . Their work is concomitantly  situated within their immediate political contexts which in both the cases is the illegitimate colonial occupation . Darwish, shoulders the burden of his nation, thus responds tradition of an Arab writer as a community spokesperson. His blunt tone wrought with the national dilemma  is a preoccupation  which leads him to enrich the genre of resistance poetry. Heaney, a bit  oblique than Darwish, nevertheless intensely depicts the Irish national sentiment in his overt verse. With his fine artistic nerve he narrates the troubles his nation was subjected under the wretched occupation. Both Darwish and Heaney highlight the ills of colonization and debunk the obnoxious ideologies working as a backing force behind all this schematic praxis. Thus, owing to the narration of their national trauma and devastating effects of their countries’ colonized history, both poets can be safely read under the genre of resistance poetry.