This indicates the orientation of the poet's spirit towards the concrete of the world, as he had announced in Humanization. Poems such as: After Snails, Riga Crypto and the Lapp Enigel, Miss Hus, Isarlâk, Nastratin Hogea at Isarlâk, published from the second half of 1921 to 1925, can be integrated here, in Romanian Life and Ion Vinea's Contemporary. Most are long, largely due to descriptive passages, an immediate consequence of concrete concern; they have a narrative character, "ballad", because they "tell" a story; Finally, it evokes a picturesque world of local or Balkan inspiration, similar to that of Anton Pann's vision. The pictorial suggestion is now exceptional. The expression is fresh and strong, revealing in I. Barbu a poet of the word, not only of the idea and the vision, as we know him at the beginning. However, the description does not exist exclusively pictorially, but sets a suitable atmosphere. The ballad theory would be repeated in the aesthetics of the Literary Circle from Sibiu by poets of this current such as Radu Stanca and Ștefan Augustin Doinaș.
Isarlak, (inima mea), for example, is an ideal city, "white as a ray" placed "in the midst of evil and good," populated with people who live both the delights of the spirit and those of life. a standing glory ": a fabulous universe in which everything is balanced. Of great suggestive force, under the report of the verbal invention, is Miss Hus, whose value lies almost entirely in expression. The poem talks about the story of a once passionate and unhappy love and a tragicomic heroine, "pezevenche" cadena who calls her from the other world, through enchantments, the lover who forgot her. But her charm is not in the picturesque story in the extraordinary incantation of the lyrics and in the fantastic suggestion of the enchantment. The symbolic substratum of the narrative and descriptive elements in the poems of the second stage can be found in After Snails, a long poem in which folk motifs are stylized to tell an experience of initiation into the mysteries of nature, become a drama of knowledge or in Riga Crypto si Lapona Enigel .