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Light as a metaphor appears often in romantic poetry. The aim of this text is to show one aspect of this metaphor – the connection between light and warmth, which was often problematic for Romantic poets. The consequences of separating these two elements can be found in Moore’s, Byron’s and Schiller’s poetry. Mickiewicz’s translation of Schiller’s poem Licht und Wärme serves as an example of important semantic shifts caused by different understanding of the “light and warmth” metaphor by the German author and the Polish translator. A kind of summary can be found in K.H. Macha’s poem, which presents the variety of possibilities offered by separating or uniting these two elements (light and warmth) within a metaphorical expression.