Like a nomad who do not have a place of their own, Mahmoud Darwish's Guests on the Sea depicts the cry of the Palestinian people about a homeland who was never theirs. It is a poem carrying their sentiments and hopes about a land taken away from them and a part of them who went away with it also.
The images of "pomegranates" and the "glue of memory" evoke a feeling that they never were a part of something and that they thought that they were castaways in the country of their ancestors . That is why the journey implied in the story is the voyage of the Palestinian people to make their land the rightful place for which they can rear their children and remember their forefathers.
They have become guests on sea- floating and drifting here and to. Once, the sea carried their hope that they will return to their promised land but as miserable as it was for them, their short visit has grown long and the sea kept them from nearing the shore. Sea, do not give us the song we do not deserve- a phrase where they are reminded of the sad distant song heard from the country which they want to call their own. These are the words of a people who are tired of the uncertainties and illusions of having their nation back to be their rightful place and home.
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