MAŁA OLIWKA PSALMICZNY KONTEKST „TRENU V″ JANA KOCHANOWSKIEGO.

The subject of the paper is a detailed interpretation of the first part of Jan Kochanowski's Tren V (Lament V) in the context of Psalm 128 ("Beati omnes, qui timent Domimmf). As we know, the main source of the opening part of this poem is an epic simile from Iliad (XVII, 53-58), where a young warrior Euphorbos is compared to a "slip of an olive tree" as "it blossoms into beauty." Similarly, Psalm 128 proposes the picture of sons growing up like "the olive plants around the table" of a pious man. In Kochanowski's rewriting of the Homeric simile the emphasis is always put on negation of the meanings attributed to the symbol of olive tree, such as peace, wisdom, justice, fertility, abundance, youth. The poet explores the significant absence of the promised blessing for a God-fearing man. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]