The Place as a Symbol in Adonis Short Poems

Abstract

This research deals with the spatial symbols in Adonis short poems, it revolves around an axis composed of the following questions: How is the Adonis poems creates its special symbolic place ? The kinds of this place? And its suggestive meanings ? This research consist of two points and two axises : first point around concept of poetic symbol . And the second point related to the concept of place and its relationship to creativity and the importance that became in contemporary poetic text . The first axis of the research entitled ( realistic place as symbol), it deals with the realistic places that Adonis short poems makes it as poetic symbols , of this kind of places there are one appearance , it is Damascus , to which Adonis belong. The second axis was entitled ( fantastic place as a symbol), has dealt with spatial signs that Adonis poems makes it symbols . which have no any realistic existence , out of the poetic text whom creates it . that means that this symbolic places created by poet visions and it is found in his poetic text only. These symbols are more than first axis symbols , and its denotations are different , and in it appear some of theoretical poet ideas about poetry and its language.