exile and nostalgia

Question 1

elegiac exile in the amores

Answer 1

2.9 - older lover with a desire to finish and move on - cupid returns him to the ever-repeating cycle

elegiac time never really goes forward - temporal explicit state

how to stave off the borodin of sameness?

image of the pendulum swinging in 2.9b - hypnotic but bilinear rather than cyclic - does this make any difference?

Question 2

exilic anxiety in the tristia

Answer 2

storm poems: 1.2, 1.4, 1.11

emotional anxiety surrounding his explicit fate - instability - storm as a cosmic, erotic, explicit anxiety (odyssey book 5 or the story in the aeneid)

reminiscent of world ending storm in the Met - elements become indistinguishable from one another - the elements of ovid’s poetic ego likewise disordered and competing

first storm as a form of poetic self-destruction - here leaving a wreckage rather than an embryonic poetic world as in the met

Question 3

temporal exile

Answer 3

the tristia as a culmination of his temporal meddling and the delay of his advance to epic

suspended outside of space and time (lucretius - time as a secondary characteristic of place, and the place for his poetic landscape is rome from which he is exiled) - rome defines him as the city he loved and loved within - he is much like the heroines of the heroides

Question 4

water in the tristia

Answer 4

passage by sea as a poetic death

homer as the poetic sea - he is subsumed by it

temporal fissures / fracturing of time

form of katabasis like the styx/acheron and charon - elegiac voice aged beyond the youthful exploits it usually inhabits

elegy - meter of mourning as much as the meter of elegiac love (think of the parrot poem)