Paradygmat młodości w polskiej poezji awangardowej

In his article, the author discusses the problem of youth that occurs in the poetry of Polish avant-garde poets. On the example of the interwar poems of Anatol Stern and Czesław Miłosz among others the researcher shows the functioning of the two major variants of the paradigm of youth in this poetry. The first one is related to the creation of youth as the ruthless force that forms new laws and qualities of life. The poets of the Second Avant-Garde present another model of youth in their works. The age of adolescence becomes a pretext for them to verify the existing world and settle with its naïve reception. Catastrophic moods are dominant in their art. Between these two variants of the paradigm of youth there are Adam Ważyk’s visions of adolescence, in which the researcher indicates the presence of idyllic threads and child’s imagination.