Abstract
This article analyzes the ballad Amărâta turturică (The Embittered Dove) inaccordance with the symbolism of this bird in folk environments, being presented indifferent situations and existential hypostases, in accordance with the allegory of humandestiny. The image-symbol "embtittered dove" is put at the service of remedying differentcontradictory states and feelings, depicting the drama of an existential destiny, marked byfalls and inner collapses. The ballad about the widowed dove is related to a series of motifsand renders a "synthesis of symbols", tangent to the archetypal significance of some birdtopos in our ritual folklore, to foreshadow the culmination of serious existential feelings.As metaphors of predestination, both the hunter and the dove express some tragic entitiesof human life, outline the meaning of a polarized destiny, marked by inner contradictions,deepen the idea of nostalgic loneliness in the face of irreversible passage.