This study examines the use of the story of Prophet Joseph (peace be upon him) in contemporary Palestinian poetry, focusing on Mahmoud Darwish’s poem “I Am Joseph, O My Father”. It investigates the mechanisms through which Darwish appropriates and transforms elements of the Qur’anic narrative. The poem evokes most of the story’s events and characters while preserving its general narrative framework. Nevertheless, the poet reshapes several elements in accordance with his poetic vision and lived experience. Despite numerous studies addressing the poem and Darwish’s reworking of the story of Joseph, the appropriation and transformation of its narrative elements, their mechanisms, and their role in meaning production have not been independently and comprehensively examined.The study employs a descriptive-analytical approach to identify manifestations of narrative evocation and transformation, alongside a stylistic approach to analyze lexical and semantic variations, linguistic choices, poetic imagery, and discourse structure. The poem is examined at four levels: events, characters, dialogues, and Qur’anic vocabulary. The findings reveal that transformation occurs through omission, addition, expansion, and reversal of meaning, with the latter proving most effective in generating new significations. While preserving central Qur’anic markers, Darwish recontextualizes them within a contemporary poetic framework that evokes exile, deprivation, and oppression and reconstructs them symbolically. This demonstrates the capacity of Qur’anic heritage to function as a dynamic symbolic structure for articulating the Palestinian experience and addressing questions of identity, exile, and resistance.