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Author presents life and creativity of two prominent Slavic poets: Czech poet Jiři Orten (1919–1941) and Polish poet Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński (1921–1944). Author exerts similarities of their biographies, vital philosophies and topics of works. Both poets made debut just before The World War II and after its explosion they lived and created in situation of threat to life. War and occupation have caused, that both poets tried to find in their creativity answer on existential questions. Personal poetic vision of world was an antidote on grimness of reality: on the one hand fabulous, and on the other metaphysical.