If one must identify the crucial core of Solomos' poetry, it is proposed as a marginal trial at the threshold of life and death. However, it is neither a pro-animal nor a death-loving poetry.

Its subjects (both individual and collective) undergo (and are tested in) an indivisible dual experience, where life and death interrelate and alternate, historically and existentially, at the pinnacle moment of their mutual recognition and revelation. In this climax, the poem is formed, shaping the poet as well.

Meanwhile, exemplary poetic figures arise within the evolving Solomonic poetry: the Cretan, the warlord, and the clairvoyant from the Free Besieged, the youth in the Porfyra.

There are poets and poems that rely more on the emotions of the senses and feelings. Solomos, transmuting senses and feelings, ultimately aims for an intellectual (more simply: cognitive) emotion, which is certainly not rational. In this regard, it represents a unique case in our literature, perhaps with the exception of Cavafy.