Seventh: the two axes of the text and the order of its ideas
Point 7 of 12 — Lesson 4: I Love You My Homeland by Mahmoud Hassan Ismail and the School of ApolloQuestion bank: 0 questions (0 with pictures)
07Seventh: the two axes of the text and the order of its ideas
Axis one: love
Speech aboutnature, the countryside above all: the singing of birds, the sound of the wave, the warbling of the shepherds — and aboutthe beauty and magic of the homeland and the harmony and kindness of its people.
He declares lovefrom the very first words: "I love you, my homeland (ahwaak ya watani)" — a sentence repeated in the same structure or with some of its words, with a variation that deepens the love.
Axis two: sacrifice and ransom
In the middle of the speech of love he turns to what the homeland is exposed to, and addresses it: "O rock that the winds of time weakened, while time itself was not weakened" — the winds grew weak and the rock stood firm.
Then he returns to love, whichreaches its peak in "and love in you is renewed by every beating heart".
Then he returns to the challenges, and the talk of ransom comes: "however tyrannical the night becomes, O my homeland… we will scatter it".
Everything in the homeland turns into the price of its freedom and dignity: its earth, its sky, and all between them.
📝 Question bank for this point
0 questions linked to this point only, 0 of them with pictures.