Semnificația dorului în lirica populară

In this article, one of the key images of our traditional art is being proposed to analyze, the metaphor of ‘’dor’’, which determines the lyrical substance of several folk writings, generalizing the universe of popular feelings. Once ‘’dor’’ defines the “Romanian states of mind”, it deepens a complexity of feelings, inner resorts, being understood to some aesthetic generalizations of reality, these are the significance of synthesizing the ontological dimensions of human lives. The ‘’dor’’ tends to an area of absolute generality represented by proportions that it knows them sentimentally lived. Through the image of the ‘’dor’’ is considered the perpetual character of life, movement, evolution, we see a codification of the Romanian soul, the fundamental idea of a viable concept of existence. In folk’s lyric, the ‘’dor’’ becomes an aesthetic category, it defines the most genuine modern testament of the national spirit, it is one of the finest crystallizations of the popular soul, “the fundamental constant of his vision of the world and life” (M. Bucur).The poetization of the ‘’dor’’ foresees a criterion of aesthetic evaluation, of promoting the general-human values, of some attitudes taken from the experience of the people, from the treasure of its spiritual richness.