The Religious Symbol in the Mesopotamian Poetry A paper Extracted from an Ph.D. Dissertation

Abstract

The research mainly aims to the mechanism of the symbol , its importance to the poet and its effect in conveying the human , social , intellectual and political sufferings of the poet . Through the religious symbol , the poet can reach to his special constructions which constitutes the Iraqi poetry because it is an effective constituent in constructing the poetic image . The research is divided into two parts ; the concept of text and poetic patterns of the religious symbol . The researchers depend on a number of sources ; the most important of which are (Al-Khateah wa Al-Takfeer) of the critic Abdullah Al-Ghuthami , (Balaghah al-Khitab wa Alm Al-Nas) of Dr. Salah Fadhil and (Poetry) of the French critic Todorov . The research is concluded by mentioning the important results reached at .