This thesis is specifies a biography and poetic creativity of Grigor Vitez. He is an author who`s inspiration emanated from nature and his memories of childhood he spent in native surroundings. Therefore his poems are enriched in animalistic, nature and childhood motives as well as childhood activities and are written in a manner acceptable to children. Playfulness, simplicity and originality are among basic features connecting motives of nature and folk customs in author`s poetry. This paper aims to analyze selected poems. In the first part of the paper the focus is given to a number of various stylistic figures: figures of diction, words, thoughts and sentence constructions, while the second part contains linguistically-stylistic analysis of the selected poems which confirms use of various literary styles that contribute to the artistic value of the poetry as well as its reception. Poems analyzed through this paper are rich in various literary styles (personification, metaphor, onomatopoeia etc.) as well as childhood and nature motives. Analyzing the chosen poems, one comes to a conclusion that Vitez`s poetry is rich in word play and nonsense, which creates a positive, cheerful feeling in reader`s mind.