‘Place’ is one of the pillars that cannot be neglected or overtaken in any study of any literary text that tries to be characterized as inclusive and methodological. Studies about place in literary works have abounded, and the terms that are specific to the study of place have become numerous, such as narrative space, literary space, geo-space, textual space and many other terms. In contrast, studies have shown that place is not limited to geographical space and geometric dimension, but includes abstract relationships, feelings and emotions as well as the poet’s own mental stock. This study focuses on showing the special particularity of the element of place in Mahmoud Darwish’s poem “She Has Not Come”[1] from his collection of poetry, Ka-Zahr al-Lawz aw Aba’ad / almond blossom or beyond [2]. It is a poem that is devoid of any word that expresses a geographical, physical or geometric place. What we find in it, instead, are phrases of placement whose connotations reflect the implicit place and the intersecting, polarized binaries, representing the inner self, such as identifying directions and employing spatial attributes. The study reveals how these connotations are key to the contents of the poem and the fluctuations in the lyrical speaker’s reactions to the absence or absenteeism of the beloved. Thus, we find it a way to forget; an outlet to unload anger; and a way to punish the beloved.
Keywords: "Ka-Zahr al-Lawz aw Aba'ad", Mahmoud Darwish, Spatial Space, implicit place, place indications., spatial attributes
