SARMATIAN CULTURE NOTES SL13

Lament 18 / Tren 18
= lord
Spatiality between age – dzieci and Panie
Spatiality motivates a quest to transcendence and enlightenment – physically – to heaven.
Every 3 lines, 4th line is disappointment/departure – this spatiality is ever present.
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Binaries ever present:
słonce and śneg
Rozkosz – delight; ciężka – pain
Rhyming couplet – zlosci, litosci (phonetics between evil and mercy).

Miłosierdzie – charity; karz – punish

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NA LIPę – epigram I – very baroque

‘pod’ = beneath; deistic allusions
Naturalistic – miod ; ‘tu słowicy, tu szpacy, wdzięcznie narzekają’
Mythology – ‘w hesperyskim sadzie’
Ja Ja / Tu Tu – phonetic dual repetitio – duality of Genesis
Binaries of weather – słonće, cienie

PIEŚŃ XXIV
‘natury’
Yet more of a poetic ideal: ‘polecę precz, poeta, że dwojej żłożony’
Na ziemi – ideals of transcending the existing condition
Otherness : ‘I róznego mieszkańcy świata Anglikiowe’
Binaries between life and death: ‘przebywać’, ‘umrę’
Fatalism: ‘Niech przy próznym pogrzebie żadne narkezanie’
Imperious and personally-coded (although ‘moim’ and possessive exists in two other poems): ‘’O
mnie Moskwa i bedą wiedzieć Tatarowie.
Revelling in luxury: ‘mar drogo słanych’
Physicality: ‘po palcach’, ‘z ramion’

‘To realize this sense of grief as fully as possible, Kochanowski must appeal to some commonly
shared experience… Thus it is that Kochanowski turned to mythological and classical allusions among
other poetic devices.’ p.8

‘Consistent with Christianity's principle of a Life-affirming death, there are no mythological or

classical allusions to death after this fifteenth Lament. Biblical and Christian allusions come to the
fore in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and the final "Dream" Lament.’ P.18

‘[explored] the seminal themes of Death and Christian faith versus pagan Rationality.’ P.19

MYTHOLOGICAL ALLUSIONS IN KOCHANOWSKI'S "LAMENTS" Author(s): RAY J. PARROTT Jr. Source:

The Polish Review , Winter, 1969, Vol. 14, No. 1 (Winter, 1969), pp. 3-19 Published by: University of
Illinois Press on behalf of the Polish Institute of Arts & Sciences of America Stable URL:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/2577681