The aim of this paper is to show how the allegory of an arrow piercing the heart, as an elementof erotic discourse, functioned in early-modern Polish poetry (both secular and religious). Theauthor analyses two poems: a vernacular poem by Jan Kochanowski, from his collection ofSongs(I 4),published in 1585 in Krakow, and its Latin paraphrase written in 17thcentury by Elisaeus a SanctaMaria OCD, who was the author of a verse collectionDe vita, gestis ac miraculis sanctae matrisnostrae Theresiae a Iesu, Seraphicae virginis Lyricorum libri IV, epodon liber unus duoque epigram-matum, published in 1650 in Krakow as well. Elisaeus calls his paraphrase a "palinody" becauseof its polemic tendencies. The analysis of Kochanowski’s song focuses on finding the dominantelements of each stanza for the purpose of demonstrating that the Carmelite poet saved their order,but presented them in a completely different dimension, in a new ideological context, openinga metaphysical perspective.
keywords in Polish:
miłość świecka i święta, Jan Kochanowski, alegorie miłości, Elizeusz od św. Maryi OCD
keywords in English:
secular and sacred love, Jan Kochanowski, allegories of love, Elisaeus a Sancta Maria, religious poetry
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affiliation:
Wydział Polonistyki : Katedra Historii Literatury Staropolskiej