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Passport By: Mahmoud Darwish

Passport By: Mahmoud Darwish. PowerPoint By: Andrew, Jess M, Jess G. Passport Audio . http:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=VT0xNxw8Bvg. Passport.

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Passport By: Mahmoud Darwish

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  1. PassportBy: Mahmoud Darwish PowerPoint By: Andrew, Jess M, Jess G

  2. Passport Audio • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VT0xNxw8Bvg

  3. Passport They did not recognize me in the shadowsThat suck away my color in this PassportAnd to them my wound was an exhibit For a tourist Who loves to collect photographsThey did not recognize me,Ah . . . Don't leaveThe palm of my hand without the sunBecause the trees recognize meAll the songs of the rain recognize meDont' leave me pale like the moon! All the birds that followed my palmTo the door of the distant airportAll the wheatfieldsAll the prisonsAll the white tombstonesAll the barbed boundariesAll the waving handkerchiefsAll the eyeswere with me,But they dropped them from my passport Stripped of my name and identity?On a soil I nourished with my own hands?Today Job cried outFilling the sky:Don't make an example of me again!Oh, gentlemen, Prophets,Don't ask the trees for their namesDon't ask the valleys who their mother isFrom my forehead bursts the sword of lightAnd from my hand springs the water of the riverAll the hearts of the people are my identitySo take away my passport!

  4. Lit. Term 1 • Point of View-First Person: relates to the poem because it is written first person point of view. They did not recognize me in the shadowsThat suck away my color in this PassportAnd to them my wound was an exhibit For a tourist Who loves to collect photographs

  5. Lit. Term 2 Parallelism: In the second verse of the poem he keeps saying “all the”. All the wheatfieldsAll the prisonsAll the white tombstonesAll the barbed boundariesAll the waving handkerchiefsAll the eyeswere with me,

  6. Lit. Term 3 • Persona: The writer adapts to the hard life living in the middle east.

  7. Lit. Term 4 • Allusion: The author references to Job. • Job is a blessed man you lives righteously.

  8. Analysis The meaning behind “Passport” is that everything that Mahmoud knew about his home place changed. He himself changed as well. He got stripped of his identity. I think that the poem means that since he was stripped his identity, why should he have a passport, that has a picture of himself on there, if he does not look the same and no one will recognize him.

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