The terminological doublet „surface structure – deep structure”, which appeared within the transformational-generative grammar, being caught up afterwards by the literary semiotics, is widely used in order to explain the meaning generation mechanism in the literary text. This theoretical model has served as a basis for the present research. According to it we have identified in a number of texts by G. Bacovia elements of surface structure (the organization of the linguistic level, literary devices), that are linked to certain meanings (connotating obsessions and specific views).