The Translation of Mythical Intertextuality in Darwish’s Mural “Jidariat Darwish”

The Palestinian poet, Mahmoud Darwish, is a master of weaving various intellectual sources and different types religious, artistic, historical, mythical figures into his poetry. Like any exceptional piece art, poetry triggers an immediate response. It blends the aesthetic with informative to create vivid world deeply rooted in global heritage local folklore. This paper investigates translation strategies intertextuality Darwish's poem "Mural.” current product-oriented descriptive study that uses contrastive analysis three published translations analyse strategies. located source text then each example mapped its counterparts target texts. aims identify used translating Arabic English, find impediments hindering process, reach generalisation about translators' norms patterns translation. concludes regardless strategy applied translate intertextuality, what truly affects process product translator's cultural accumulative knowledge, i.e. infrastructure. which enables translator perform vital role as informed reader, facilitates task rendering can be studied representative all aspects, connections background. Keywords: poetry; Darwish’s Mural ; Darwish; intertextuality;