Palestine in the Perspective of Nizar Qabbani: The Critical Discourse Analysis in The Poems of Nizar Qabbani

Abstract

Nizar Qabbani is Syrian poet born in Damascus March 21, 1923. In his poetry, Qabbani dedicate a lot of his poem to defense the Arabs in oppose the tyranny of Jewish people . The defence  appeared strongly after the 1967 war, as at these six days war, the Arabs were defeated by the Jewish. Qabbani who started his career as the diplomat known that his poetry is sensual and romantic. However after 1967 war, Qabbani wrote many poetry about his defence to Arabs, specifically the defence to Palestine to gain their independence. This study is using the qualitative-analysis method with the approach of Critical Discourse Analysis. The objective of this study is to explain the social and cultural phenomenon discourse related to the context of defensive form poet to Arabs and especially Palestine people when confronting the oppression Jewish nation. Results obtained from this study is that the sense of pain in self-esteem as the Arabs by the arbitrariness treatment from "Jews" nation. Encouragement from Qabbani to Palestine strengthen after the bitter of defeat from Six Days War in 1967. Not only to defend Palestine as an Arab country that is fight to gain their independence, moreover, Qabbani obviously considered that Palestine as his homeland. As for his high sense of nationalism to defence the Palestine, allegedly because the poet who originated from Syria and his wife from Iraq, the two countries indeed have a sense of high nationalism.