" In this poem, the speaker lives in a house comparable to a "watchman's hut" "of branches and cane" and says he learned "the pride of the sun" before learning how to read from his father, who "descends from the family of the plow."
The first two stanzas of this poem end with the same question, the second instance in response to the speaker not belittling himself "at the footsteps of your chamber." In this poem, the speaker lives in a house comparable to a "watchman's hut" "of branches and cane" and says he learned "the pride of the sun" before learning how to read from his father, who "descends from the family of the plow." The speaker of this poem works in a quarry to support his eight children, and he will soon have a ninth. Among the traits the speaker announces are that he does not hate people, but that the "usurper's (*) flesh" could become his food. Four of the six stanzas begin with the exclamation, "Write Down!" and the speaker repeatedly announces that he has "a name without a title" and that he is an Arab. For 10 points, name this poem in the collection Leaves of Olives by Mahmoud Darwish about the titular record that "is number fifty thousand."
The first two stanzas of this poem end with the same question, the second instance in response to the speaker not belittling himself "at the footsteps of your chamber.
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