The sketch deals w ith the problems of the poetic letter. During the exemplification of the issue, poems by Julian Przyboś, Cyprian Norwid and Ignacy Krasicki are used. It turns out that important issues can be seen from the perspective of selected, but also deep anthropological problems, arising from the interpretative process. The tools for understanding them are provided by thinkers of post-Husserlian phenomenology, in this case Dietrich von Hildebrand.