In its pastiche character of a poetic colloquim with the author of Srebrne i czarne
[Silver and Black], a poem by Jerzy Liebert Do poety [To the Poet] introduces two counter-
effects: his own self-portrait and a portrait of Lechoń. This gesture of the portraitist
discloses something irritatingly dispatching and, at the same time, disturbingly concealing.
Not only does Liebert raise doubts (“what if…”), basically framing his artistic
self-consciousness, but also liberates himself from the cumbersome protection of Skamander.
This temerity of looking into poetic looking-glasses, one’s own and those of
others, allows him to rich full independence of artistic means, which will reveal itself
in the later artistic period
