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