[1] However, Ballads and Romances preserve some of the traditions of earlier literary genres popular in Poland such as duma, dumka and idyll.

The interference of such forces may have an ethical character, which judges human deeds, restores the moral order, encourages responsibility for one's actions and punishes for wrongdoings as exemplified in Lilije, Rybka, and Świtezianka ballads.

[3] Such a view of reality in which the everyday world interacts with the supernatural and extrasensory one had a polemical character and was in stark contrast to the rational perspective adopted during the Age of Enlightenment.

[4] The ballad Romance (Polish: "Romantyczność") is, in particular, an example of the clash between the rationalism of the Enlightenment and the romantic vision of the world in which the faith in the extrarational understanding of reality and the existence of phenomena which are impossible to grasp by the human mind are postulated.

[6] Literary critic, Czesław Zgorzelski, described Świteź, Świtezianka and Rybka as "rusalka-like" poems which "base the romantic uncanniness of the story on the supernatural metamorphoses which bind humans with nature".