The article discusses Polish as a foreign language (PFL) classes using the method of teacher introspection and a study of two cases of didactic events. Their participants were humanists: foreign students of the Faculty of Philology at the University of Lodz The aim of the article is to present the work technique of a foreign language practitioner introducing literary content into PFL classes, as well as linking the applied forms of work with theories relating to the cultural teaching of foreign languages. The lectures on poetics delivered by the writer Olga Tokarczuk in the spring of 2018 at the Faculty of Philology of the University of Lodz were the direct inspiration for the discussed classes. In the first part of the article, the didacti...