Abstract: (The anthropocosmic symbol in the Romanian poetry) The present work focuses on the complexity of the expressive and referential structure of a symbol of synthesis, anthropocosmic, indication of the communion, beyond the natural limits, of man with the cosmos. This symbol is the result of an imaginary fusion between two incompatible, distant entities. Without a referent in the real world, but perfectly motivated by the logical and stylistic development of the central idea, the image corresponding to such a symbol does not materialize in a specific sign, present in the text, but is inferred from the development of the discourse. Both the symbolizer (the expression) and the symbolized (the content) are the conclusion of the interpret, who discovers the poet's intention. Romanian poetry presents enough examples of such symbols: the man-tree (T. Arghezi), the man-fire (R. Stanca, E. Dorcescu), the horse-man (E. Jebeleanu, N. Turtureanu), the dog-man (T. Arghezi), the wolf-man (E. Dorcescu), the wind-man (Al. Macedonski), the sea-woman (D. Anghel), the star-man (M. Eminescu), the man-slit (N. Stănescu) etc. Referential ambiguity accentuates their mystery, immateriality, spiritual character, raising numerous problems of interpretation. Such mixed symbols speak of freedom of thought, of imagining, of the vastness of a poetic universe, of the art of discourse, etc. In a word, they emphasize the axiological specific of poetic communication. The question is whether their reference, impossible to establish in the extra-linguistic reality, does not settle into the very world of poetic discourse, belonging, therefore, only to literature.