The second idea (verses 8-12): the address to the ship
Point 5 of 10 — Lesson 1: Exile and Longing for the Homeland by Ahmed Shawqi and the Revival SchoolQuestion bank: 0 questions (0 with pictures)
05The second idea (verses 8-12): the address to the ship
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Headdresses the ship as "daughter of the sea", begs her generosity and compassion, and wonders at the sea's stinginess towards him: his father is no miser — so why this habit of withholding and holding back?
He asks inindignant interrogation: how is a man barred from his homeland while the great trees are lawful to birds of every kind yet forbidden to the nightingales that live in them?
He joins this to a maxim: "every dwelling has more right to its own people" — and only a foul, vile doctrine denies it, meaningcolonialism, which made other people's homes lawful for itself and expelled their people.
He namesthe means by which the ship moves: the boiler, the sail and the buoyant water.
Thenhe makes himself all of those means:
"My soul is the boiler": the energy of his breaths and the fire of his longing are fuel for the ship.
"My heart is the sail": his turbulent, surging heart is like a sail driven by the wind.
"Sail upon the tears and cast anchor": his tears are the sea in which the ship swims.
He asks her tomake the lighthouse of Alexandria her destination, between the two quarters of al-Raml and al-Maks.
Idea drawn
Reaching one's homeland is a demand that cannot be barred: the right to one's country is a natural right.
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