The coffin of Mahmoud Darwish is carried by members of a Palestinian honour guard during his funeral in the West Bank city of Ramallah August 13, 2008. Palestinians gave their national poet Mahmoud Darwish what amounted to a state funeral in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Wednesday, mourning a man whose work voiced their sense of loss, exile and defiance. REUTERS/Fadi Arouri (WEST BANK)