خداداد بحری

Prison poetry is a literary genre, states the biographies and memoirs and reports of the poet and writer from the prison, which is usually poet complains his situations in prison and wishes release. This kind of literary is a unique technique and a fair mirror to express the truth of the people who spend their lives in jail in sadness and hopelessness; in fact, the Prison poetry is a genre of literature that discuss the memories of the black era of suffered prisoners. The author of this project studies Ali al-Asaferah's poems by descriptive-analytical method are and investigates his poems in prisons of the occupying government of Israel. The author has tried to study the main points of the his poem during the years of hard captivity, and after finding out his greatest poetic themes, she studies Literary and Rhetorical effects, including simulations, metaphors, allusions and Intertextuality. This study realized that the poet is stating his nostalgia for family and friends and complaining of his friends' disloyalty, and expressing tough physical conditions and emotional stress of captives and expressing his sadness because of Arab Disunity, and protesting against the tyranny in his Arab hometown and encouraging Arab people to fight, and praising Arab men' resistance. Asaferah also didn’t neglect to use the rhetorical effects in his poem such as simulation, metaphor, allusion, and Intertextuality. And he used these literary effects specially simulation and metaphor to describe his hometown and admire Arabian brave people; his poems are full of epical words that attract the readers to enjoy the poems and also increase the patience and resistance in Arab men for battles.