القناع و الرمز في شعر يحيى السماوي

Abstract EN

The mask in Yahya As-Samawi's poetry is used as anobjective correlative of the self, endowing it with his ownvoice and his actuality.

He interacts with it in complete unionwhere the poet's experience melts and intermingles with themask's personae.

The poet endeavours through the mask tobreak the powerful overflow of his feelings and directsensations.

As for the symbol, it is one tributary of the imagethat endows it with immortality.

The paper is divided into twosections: The first section deals with the mask and itssignificance in the literary text, its types and example of it.

The second is devoted to the literary symbol, its use and itseffect on adding suggestiveness, beauty and suspension to thetext.

The paper ends with the conclusion which gives asummary of the results of the study.