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The article presents an image of woman in Czeslaw Milosz’s late poetry. The analysis of linguistic material showed the semantic universal in which this image is encapsulated and the adequate expressions thereof – its key words. The author has analysed several dozen of Milosz’s poems as well as fragments of texts by Adam Mickiewicz, used for the sake of comparison. The analysis showed some analogies between the Romantic paradigm and the image of woman in Milosz’s poetry, yet it also showed some considerable changes: in particular, the descriptions of women became more realistic and detailed and, what follows, more pictorial. One of its characteristic features is the reference to the 19th century reality as well as its vanitative context.