This article focuses on studying the problem of the essence of poetry in the ontological question about "talking" being. Based on the positions of M. Heidegger, poetry and being has an identical ontological structure. The author developing the idea on the essence of poetry suggested by M. Heidegger believes that "the speech of the poet" which have overcome the inexpressibility of ineffable, as a discourse about the incomprehensible, inevitably tends to line up and organize itself into a figure of metaphysical silence.

Key words: philosophy, ontology, poetry, poetical speech, metaphysical silence.