The Poetics of Narrative Configuration: Reconsidering Mahmoud Darwish’s Mural as a Modern Aesthetic Dialogue between Life, Death, and Poetic Form

This paper undertakes a critical re-examination of the narrative and configurational poetics in Mahmoud Darwish's long poem Mural, a work that exemplifies the convergence of lyricism, narrative, and visual imagination.The study explores how Darwish's poetic discourse embodies a multilayered field of signification, where aesthetic form becomes a site of resistance, memory, and metaphysical contemplation.Through the interplay between the lyrical self and narrative fragments, Mural constructs an intricate web of voices that disrupts traditional poetic boundaries.The poem's fluidity reveals a modernist vision where fragmentation and dialogism express existential tensions between life and death, identity and exile, presence and absence.By employing a configurational approach, this research interprets Darwish's poetic text as an evolving visual and narrative canvas.The study investigates the symbolic and chromatic dimensions-particularly the recurrence of the color green-as metaphors of renewal and spiritual transcendence within the Palestinian struggle.Moreover, the paper analyzes Mural as a transgeneric artwork that merges painting, music, and theater within its poetic syntax, thereby transforming Darwish's text into a dynamic field of interartistic communication.Ultimately, the study situates Mural within the broader context of modern Arabic poetics, emphasizing its aesthetic innovation and cultural depth as an emblem of the Palestinian consciousness and its enduring defiance against Zionist oppression.