This article compares the poetry of two prominent modern writers: Polish-Jewish
poetess Zuzanna Ginczanka (Sara Ginzburg, 1917–1945), and Ukrainian Lemko poet
Bohdan-Ihor Antonych (1909–1937). They are believed (by Yaroslav Polishchuk et al.)
to have certain poetic, stylistic, thematic, and literary similarities. The main discourses
of their poetic imaginum mundi are studied with the use of a simple formula that
includes five components. Tracing the interplay of nature, childhood, religion, and
civilization in the development of an image of a holistic personality in their poetry,
I analyze their common and differing ideas, images, motifs, and themes. The article
also outlines the underlying similarities of both poets, i. e., their otherness, and their
references to childhood as a certain place in their poetry.