The interpretation of Bolesław Leśmian’s ballad, Dzień skrzydlaty (The winged day), presented
in the article, takes into account the crucially important context of the Postacie (Characters) cycle,
in which the oneiric character of the ballad becomes obvious. It is Leśmiatfs poetic language and
the poem’s composition that become the subject of the Author’s analysis, i.e. all kinds of departures
the standard form of the ballad which, while generating a zone of metaphysics, are, at the same
time, a polemic against the myth of Christ and a sign of Lesmian’s epistemology.
On that clash of human and divine love Leśmian bases his treatise on the direct, intuitive
cognition of life’s mystery, whose sense consists in love and death. It should be added that love in
The winged day is neither a consolation nor a salvation, it is rather life itself, a human deed and
a tool of human cognition
