Mahmoud Darwish, is a recognized Palestinian poet, whose prose gave voice to the Palestinian experience of exile, occupation and infighting in his poem Guests on the Sea. The poem conveys the sentiments of a Palestinian who are in crusade for a land that they could call their own. Darwish himself has experienced being a visitor, a guest to say so, just likje any other Palestinian. The poem cannot be easily understood if the reader itself do not have any background about the Israeli- Palestinian conflict. The phrase "glue of memory" elicits a feeling of being not a part of something, being a nation and not a country. The vastness of the sea implies the unbounded and the extent feeling of the Palestinians of wanting a land, a land on their own and not in control with others.
Moreover, the line .." Is there another rock over which to offer a new sacrifice for your mercy?” , is a biblical allusion which means that they will do everything, whatever it may gave or take it from them --- even death. While the repetition of the line "sea, do not give us the song we do not deserve", stresses out an admonition of wishing for something they cannot own. It also picture outs the ambiguity of a Palestinian mind wanted to reach for their goal and shift their doubts to a a certain approach because it would be a longer trip for them in the sea, full of hope!
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