The above text tries to catch the meaning of Eminescu’s entire poetry by presenting both informing of flowerished civilizations and, at the same theme, their sad disappearance as the greatly does in the poem Memento Mori. The poem’s analysis explains the poetical meaning whitch death has in it and, there is to be mentioned the fact that death is not only decoded in ruins and dust, but also it defames the central metaphors of the entire text. Death defines the poem as the best elaborated lyrical phenomenology in Romanian literature. By using unique imaginary constructions, the poem best depicts Eminescu’s major téme and, why not, his obsession: Time better said overwelming of theme, getting out of it.