The goal of this thesis was to explore the flower motif in Matoš' symbolic novelty and poetry which is an essential element of his creativity and entire poetics. At the very beginning, we place Matoš' literary work in the context of the symbolic poetics of the time while trying to understand his view of motives and symbols at a certain higher level. We distinguished the importance of the motives in his work and we were able to easily extract them after we studied his novelty and lyricism. When studying, we began with his prose and novelistic work, guided by the very emergence of it in his creativity; at first, he was writing prose, and after he began to write lyric. We have taken three works as his representative symbolic novellas: “Balcony”, “Camao” and “The flower from the Crossroad”. By singling out the flower motifs from the previous novellas, we came to the conclusion that the following motifs have the best fruition: the rose motif, the lily motif and the motif of a woman as a flower. After processing the representative, but also lesser-known poems of Matoš' lyric, we came to the conclusion that in fact all three motifs of novelty are repeated in the lyric, and we were able to make concrete conclusions. In addition to these motifs, we have also identified all other motifs and categorized them by their meanings, the circumstances in which they appear, and the symbolisms, if any.