Un sapere inutile ma necessario. Per una lettura di Ovidio, Pont. I 5
As the tradition of the literary genre wills it, the poetry of exile has for subject-matter the laments of the narrator in his role of exul, aware that he will not be able to regain his mother country. For the poet, exiled at Tomis, the city of Rome represents the place of regret and wistfulness, th...
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| description | As the tradition of the literary genre wills it, the poetry of exile has for subject-matter the laments of the narrator in his role of exul, aware that he will not be able to regain his mother country. For the poet, exiled at Tomis, the city of Rome represents the place of regret and wistfulness, the place of friendships, of social and cultural life, a unique point of reference, in its near mythical but always real distance, for any poetical discourse. Even in this elegy, the remembrance and usage of the genre’ s topoi make of the epistula a highly serious literary game which concerns Ovid’ s whole work as well as his poetics. Poetry alone, through its wholesome uselessness, has followed the poet during his enforced sojourn. The specificity of the letter Pont. I 5 lies in confirming the poet’s faithfulness to poetry, namely that ≪ minor ≫ poetry which provoked his exile - faithfulness to poetry (and its myths) which stands for the choice of a way of life to which it confers worth, meaning and consolation. In this light, the letter to Cotta Maximus reveals its whole truth. |
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