Analogia bytu i kontemplacja w „Wybrzeżach pełnych ciszy” bł. Karola Wojtyły

This article discusses changes in the poetry of Karol Wojtyła which appear in his texts under the influence of St. John’s of the Cross mystical theology and St. Thomas’s of Aquinas concept of being. In comparison with his earlier poems written before WWII, which lavishly use variety of figures of speech and cultural allusions, his later texts composed in the 1940’s, such as the one’s included into “Shores of Silence”, are more condensed and ascetic. This change introduces new aesthetic and cognitive quality into his poetry. These poems are more focused on individual images and well wrought metaphors. This trait makes them more meditative and contemplative.