„Stopy szukają w trawie – jest ziemia”. Ziemia w twórczości poetyckiej Karola Wojtyły – Jana Pawła II

This article deals with the widely understood motif of “earth” and its polysemy in the poetic works of Karol Wojtyła / John Paul II. The method of literary analysis and interpretation has allowed for the discerning of a semantic field and to demonstrate the function of the motif of “earth” in the author’s outlook on material reality, his attitude towards the fertility of the soil, nature, fatherland, the Earth, the cosmos and, finally, spiritual reality, combined, in man, with material reality in a particular way, through the Incarnation and Redemption. The analysis of the individual poetic style, especially the method of evoking landscapes, has proved to be a particularly useful interpretational tool, and helps distinguish Karol Wojtyła from his predecessors, interwar poets, and contemporaries – the young poets of the war generation.