The image schemas form the basis of metaphor, and through them human beings communicate between the experiences of the outside world and their minds. These external experiences, once transformed into conceptual constructs in the mind, are expressed through language in the context of more abstract concepts. In other words, image schemas communicate the physical experiences of the outside world and language, and in the next stage, these tangible experiences and conceptual constructs are used in abstract cases. These schemas are divided into types in terms of how they express these experiences. Three types are considered in this Study. Containment scheme, path scheme, force scheme. Although image schemas are a new discussion in the field of cognitive linguistics; nevertheless, poets and writers have used these schemas in their literary texts from the past to the present. In the present study, image schemas have been studied in seven volumes of the nine-volume collection of publications of Nizār Qabbānī, a poet known in the Arab world, entitled "The Complete Publishing Works". In this collection, two volumes are prose and seven volumes are his poems, His poems are the subject of this Study.
This Study has examined the image schemas and their effectiveness in a library style with a descriptive-analytical approach according to the poems of this poet; It also categorizes the types of image schemas and at the end identifies and analyzes the use of each of these schemas. The results of this study show that Qabbānī has used his experiences from the environment to express non-objective and abstract concepts in his poems and has written them beautifully; In this way, by using schemas, he has transferred the physical and tangible features received from the outside world to the abstract concepts in his mind. The predominant aspect of pictorial schemas in his poems is containment schemas; after the containment scheme, the path scheme has the highest frequency in his poems, and fin