The article elucidates some aspects of the artistic imagination of the writer Ion Druță. A special role in Ion Druță's prose belongs to the compositional valorization of symbol and allegory (that is, the exploration of ways of poeticizing artistic language, which constitute features of lyricism). Equally important is their way of revealing, their way of internal organization. The article argues that the means of symbolization, allegorization, etc. it depends, to a large extent, on how and at what level the emotional and ideatico-artistic message of the image is revealed.