محمدجواد پورعابد

This study tries to reveal the phenomenon of symbols in mahmoud Darwish’s collection of poems” why did you leave the horse alone” who is one of the poles of contemporary poets in cultural and literary field. We divided the study into two parts: theoretical and practical.In the theoretical section we were to the most important topics of symbol that they are: definition, attributes and types of symbol and the icon, and the mask.In the practical section we studied the historical,mythical, religious symbols in the colloction of poems”why did you leave the horse alone”. Historical symbols are more apparent and the poet by them proves his right to have the land.It unfolded for us that Mahmoud Darwish’s poetic text accepts different connotation.and in Mahmoud Darwish’s poetic style the word is not closed in specific framework. The collection of poems “why did you leave the horse alone?” represented a prominent impact in the poetic maturity of mahmoud darwish. The symbol sources in the collection of poems “why did you leave the horse alone?” were varied between mythological and religious and historical and the symbols took most of their using in the meanings of soleness and estrangement and migration that it’s significance was about reality(conditions) of Palestinian human. Mahmoud Darwish used the jewish culture maybe to confront with the occupier by the language that he understans and characters that believes them to condemn him before others condemn him.