Jana Kochanowskiego spór z antycznym dziedzictwem o stosowność człowieczego płaczu. Prolegomena do kryzysu światopoglądowego poety w świetle wybranych trenów. Część I
Jan Kochanowski's dispute with ancient heritage for the suitability of human weeping. Prolegomen to the world-view crisis of the poet in the light of selected laments. Part I

Summary/Abstract: Human is a place of a mysterious and complicated synthesis of matter and spirit, the result ofwhich is an ambivalent reality. It implies effects as varied and contradictory as joy and sorrow, pleasureand pain, life and death. Pain and death have always been a source of anxiety and a great unknown inthe face of which man has shown his helplessness. On the other hand, human has a reflective awarenessof his pain, which highlights the awareness of his own self. Suffering that affects the whole person isalso something very personal, which teaches us that we must live our uniqueness responsibly and that,in the depths of our being, everyone is alone with God. The human reaction to the experience of painand suffering is crying, which indicates reaching the limit of possible behavior.This is the experience of the Renaissance poet Jan Kochanowski, who, after the death of hisdaughter, devotes a series of nineteen songs to her, being a kind of diary of suffering. The Laments, asthey are discussed in the article, are at the same time a diary of the reflections and reevaluations born bythis suffering, and at the same time a comprehensive polemic with the basic assumptions of antiquity.The article deals with the issue of crying on three levels: crying over her daughter’s death, cryingfor herself, and crying over the principles of Kochanowski so far. These considerations were precededby a reflection on the world order violated by the unrelenting death of a child.

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