"Pszczoły" Leopolda Staffa i Bolesława Leśmiana. Paralele i dysonanse

The text presents an interpretation of poetical pieces by Boleslaw Leśmian and Leopold Staff with the same title: Pszczoly (“The Bees”). What constitutes the departure point for the said analyses is a prolific metaphor theme that has been present in interpretative discourse since Antiquity, namely that of the “bee-poet”, but also identifying those insects with the Death, the mystery of existence, and with the being, all of which facilitates the reading of these two forgotten poems of Polish modernism in terms of the sacred (sacrum) and existence as well as the identity of beings (the latter category is referred to in interpretation via the ship of Theseus paradox).