Milczenie w poezji Czesława Miłosza i Tadeusza Różewicza

The author contemplates the functioning of the muteness method, as described in the poetry of Miłosz and Różewicz (especially in relation to Heidegger’s late concepts). Simultaneously, he questions the meaning of silence as a field of un-naming, a dismissal of a word when faced with a secret, muteness as a result of the contact with an ontological barrier, and eventually, as the condition of an ecstatic being. Therefore, the text undertakes the problem of a phenomenon of being (esse) – one of the crucial ones in Miłosz’s and Różewicz’s late output. The author concentrates on the various strategies of deconstructing a subject, as presented in the poetry of the above writers. At the same time he understands their poetry as a conscious act enabling the human perception of Being.