The Role of Nazim Hikmat and His Poetry in Palestinian Resistance Poetry

Abstract

Nazim Hikmet is considered one of the prominent international poets who left an impact on the path of human and international literature. His poetic and struggle experience had a great impact on the souls of many poets in the world, especially poets whose political experiences and national goals were similar, such as: demanding freedom, standing up to colonialism and occupation, and fighting Poverty, hunger, and supporting simple people, as is the situation in Palestine and the conflict therein. Nazim Hikmet left a clear impact on Palestinian poets, and the poets began to rely on his poetry and thought, and they followed in his path, quoting from his poetry and using those poems in their poems, inspired by his revolutionary thought and the combative struggle against colonialism, and this appeared in the most important Palestinian poets such as Mahmoud Darwish, Samih Al-Qasim, Tawfiq Ziad, Abdel Nasser Saleh, Moeen Bseiso and others.  After studying Nazim Hikmet’s poetry, we found that spirit of struggle and resistance that knows nothing but challenge, courage, and integration into the group, or what is known as revolutionary resistance literature, which was demonstrated in those poems and poems that Nazim Hikmet said when he was in the most difficult and cruel time of his life, and this is what we noticed in The poetry of Palestinian poets who adopted Nazim Hikmet’s poetry is a role model for all similar situations in the world. The research will attempt to find out the impact of Nazim Hikmet and his combat and struggle poetry on modern Palestinian poetry, and the extent to which this poetry is used in serving the Palestinian cause. The research relied on the descriptive analytical method, as it is the closest approach to studying this type of study.