MAŁA OLIWKA PSALMICZNY KONTEKST „TRENU V” JANA KOCHANOWSKIEGO
A SMALL OLIVE TREE A PSALMIC CONTEXT OF JAN KOCHANOWSKI’S “TREN V” (“LAMENT V”)

Summary/Abstract: The subject of the paper is a detailed interpretation of the first part of Jan Kochanowski’s Tren V (La-ment V) in the context of Psalm 128 (“Beati omnes, qui timent Dominum”). As we know, the main sourceof the opening part of this poem is an epic simile from Iliad (XVII, 53–58), where a young warrior Eu-phorbos is compared to a “slip of an olive tree” as “it blossoms into beauty.” Similarly, Psalm 128 pro-poses the picture of sons growing up like “the olive plants around the table” of a pious man. In Kocha-nowski’s rewriting of the Homeric simile the emphasis is always put on negation of the meaningsattributed to the symbol of olive tree, such as peace, wisdom, justice, fertility, abundance, youth. Thepoet explores the significant absence of the promised blessing for a God-fearing man.

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