The sketch devoted to the parallel creation spaces in the works of Leopold Staff’s and Bolesław Leśmian’s is an attempt to show the way reality – in which the poets portray – in conjunction with a mirror. In the analyzed works, the lyrics revealing similarities in borderline and epistemological situations in the lives of the heroes of Staff’s and Leśmian’s were subjected to interpretation. The use and sexual transformation of the Narcissus myth was indicated, using...