Fantastic romantic si rusticitate n basmele eminesciene

In Eminescu’s work, as G. Calinescu says, “there is a traditional wind allover”, due to the poet’s contact with the rustic life, with the people’s artisticwork. If in Eminescu’s poetry one can feel “the traditional wind” through thefrequent use of images (forest, river, fountain, shadoof, herd etc.), sounds(elegiac folksong, crescent, horn, long shepherd’s pipe, whistle, grif etc.) andrhythm, all characteristic to the Romanian nature, in the narrative fictionsome other aspects are added: the national costume, the dwelling (shack,hut) decorated with rather practical objects than beautiful ones and thetraditions connected to the transition moments in man’s life: birth, weddingand funeral. Eminescu introduces the country life in his works, but theworld of fairytales belonging to the gold age, without time and space, makesthe poet dream of a beautiful world, of the endless life spectacle. Reality anddream grow and live together.