Czy poeci kochają retorykę?
Do poets love rhetoric?

Summary/Abstract: Since the times of Hellenic Enlightenment there has been an ongoing debate between philosophy, rhetoric and literature. This debate in the history of western culture has never come to an end. Changes taking place within these „creative areas” were accompanied by changes in relationships between them. The author of this paper focuses on describing the most important facts pointing to the „difficult bond” between rhetoric and literature, especially poetry. In his opinion rhetoric could not have interested modern poets with avantgarde imagination, which does not mean that other poets have remained deaf to its significance. The author further suggests that with the loosening of a clasp that holds together rhetoric as a technique and art of constructing utterances and texts for obviously pragmatic purposes poetry was gradually losing its affinity to it. However, when poetry pushed its semantic openness to the limits of understandability, then rhetoric disappeared entirely from its area of interest. Clearly, such extreme attitudes need not to be permanent. Shortly poets will love rhetoric - and the feeling will be mutual.

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