The paper deals with the stylistic analysis of the motives of poetic personal tragedy and the construction of the character of a woman on the examples of selected lyric poems from the three phases of Tin Ujević's poetry work. The first, theoretical part of the paper, discusses stylistics and style, discusses literary stylistics, the stylistics of poetry; the life and work of Tin Ujević; and stylistic writings about his poetics. The analytical part of the work is divided according to the three phases of Ujević's work, and several selected poems are analyzed from each. After each of the three analyzed phases of Ujević's poetic work, there is a review of the phase in which there is a synthesis of critical literature on Ujević's poetics and the contribution of the analysis of this paper. These reviews describe the way in which personal tragedy is expressed in phases and how it is related to the construction of a woman's character. The construction of female characters varies greatly depending on the phases and is an exhaustive source for describing different female identities. It was female characters and love suffering that very often represented the path to personal destruction. The analytical chapters are followed by a summary discussion that completes our analyzes and reflections on Ujević's poetics.