Statistics Regarding the Occurrence of the Epithet in Romanian Symbolist Poetry

AbstractSearching the frequency of the epithet, one realizes the fact that the Romanian symbolist poets were enough mature in writing and had a balanced literary vision, shaping consciously an individual stylistic universe, avoiding exaggerations. The Romanian Symbolism is seen by most literary critics as a literary attitude which expresses special sensations, even weird, full of a morbid atmosphere and a melancholic-depressing musicality, obsessive tonality, allusive representations, unclear images, all these being rendered mostly by means of the epithet. The symbolist writings of the Romanian poets try, by their diversity, to rearrange the means of expression and to overcome the eminescian/late romanticism complex, which generated a phase of imitation hardly known before and contributed to the growth and the encouragement of the traditionalist movements