A Study of the Symbolic Inspiration from the Prophets' Biography in Samih Al-Qasim's Poetry

Contemporary poets use the legendary symbol in its artistic and contemporary image in diaspora literature, and this type of symbol in modern Arabic literature has occupied a great place and great writers have appreciated it to raise the symbol from just a passing reference incompatible with the text to embodying their suffering to fuse their subjective and objective concerns into symbols that were able to provoke. The human soul, especially as they broke the traditional barriers that hinder the launch of their literature in the sky of imagination. The effects of this circle extended to include many writers, whether in poetry, prose or in the novel, such as Ahmed Zaki Abu Shadi, Saeed Akl, Salah Labaki, and Samih Al-Qasim. This article explains an overview of the life of the poet Samih al-Qasim and mentions the verses that bear the symbol of the prophets in his poems. Samih al-Qasim adopted religious symbols, including the symbol of the prophets for his concerns and the pain of his people in front of the occupiers, and he used the character of the prophets as a symbol of rebellion against every unjust oppressor, and to express the rebellion of the Palestinian man against the forces that made him suffer ordeal. His brothers in the pit or when the whale swallowed the Prophet Yunus (peace be upon him) and depicted the liberation of the homeland and the victory of the Palestinians by visiting Jacob, his son Joseph, after enduring the pain of separation.