Amores 1.5, 2.1, 2.18 e 3.1: algumas refrações da “metapoesia” ovidiana

Abstract

This paper aims to demonstrate how Ovid, through the poetic persona of the amator, brings to the elegiac scene some poetic questions, specially in regard to genres that figure in the Amores, sometimes through subtle allusions capable of evoking features of the Greek and Latin poetic tradition. We will try to show that some elements of this ovidian “metapoetics”, proper to programmatical poems situated in begginings and endings of the three books that compound the collection, are evoked all over the work. Elegy III 1, in this sense, provide us with a wide range of characters and motives: personified Elegy, for example, can be identified with elegiac puella from I 5 because both share some “fisical” features. The speech assign to Tragedy, in the same elegy, is in some extent revoked in the recusatio that constitutes the central theme from II 18 elegy. We will also demonstrate that poetic and life style choose by ovidian amator is peculiar for his recusatio is quite different from the conventional elegiac standarts, as elegy II 1 reveal.