Mythical Elements in Lucian Blaga’s Poetry
Mythical Elements in Lucian Blaga’s Poetry

Summary/Abstract: This paper work approaches the issue of mythical, as it is reflected in the poetic creation of Lucian Blaga. The poet does not conceive poetry outside mythical thinking because only a mythical thinking penetrates the essence of things, beyond their logical appearances. Blaga’s poetry is consistent with the Romanian folkloric tradition and draws its sap from myth. His lyric illustrates very well what the poet himself called monumentalization of folk culture (minor culture) in a major culture. In search for a creative formula, Blaga will discover expressionism. Mythical motives invented by the poet or not, can be found throughout his entire lyrical creation. Many of the mythical or folkloric motives used by Eminescu: the lake, the linden tree, the spring, the forest, the sea, Blaga has borrowed them directly from the folklore or from Eminsecu’s lyrical universe. We can also see that Blaga’s work contains a great deal of elements with a rather stable symbolic value; elements that have become literary motives known in the universal imaginary and have been rebuilt by Blaga using his own vision of the world. Thus, from the telluric register of the imaginary, we discover elements like: the mountain, the cave, the wood; from the aquatic register: the mountain lake, the spring, the fountain, the lake, the tear; then others linked to the air register: the wind, the bird

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