Hidden In The Words Essay

Hidden In the Words

In Middle Eastern literature, political, economic, and domestic crises created large movements that changed topics that were used to write. For example, Israeli and Hebrew literature was highly influenced by American culture post WWII. With these topic changes came various negative emotions due to the reasons the topics were changed. For instance, Palestinian literature went from folk ballad to resistance and activist poetry teeming with themes of a dislocated people and a sense of loss for an old homeland. Yet not one author wrote their pains so straightforward. Rather, they used literary devices to hide their people's true feelings of these crises. A prominent literary device used to hide feelings was personification. In a piece of Israeli literature titled Jerusalem, the author understands that a false image has been created to protect
For example, when the language of Aramaic was forced in place of Hebrew, Aramaic was the only language allowed to be spoken. “I sweep away the beginning of things, and with a new language that has the music of water, message of fire.” (Quabbani, 83) Conflicted feelings of the Israeli turned into the anger stemmed from oppression. The anger had to be hidden due to the fear of capture. Much censorship happened in that period, which was a constant overhang on an author who would write about their pain. “If an audience could be arranged, and also my safe return.”(Quabbani, 84) This censorship led to the fear of being captured and tortured. Finally, the frustration with authority's close-mindedness created anger among the Middle Eastern people. Some authoritarians refused to see eye to eye in war circumstances. “The reason you’ve lost wars twice was because you’ve been walled in from mankind's cause and voice.” (Quabbani, 85) People were forced suffer due to authoritarians not listening to the cries of their