O ÉPICO NA POESIA ELEGÍACA: UMA ANÁLISE DO LIVRO I,1 DOS AMORES, DE OVÍDIO

Abstract

It is a curious fact when we come across the apparent beginning of an epic poem contained in an elegiac verse, so we decided to analyze what seemed to us a peculiarity and delve deeper into the theme of the epic in elegy. The objective of the work is to analyze and verify the epic passages linked to Ovid's elegiac poetry, which make the poem I 1 dos Amores act according to our assumptions, as a great proem for the book. As a fundamental basis for this study, we used articles by Ana de Bem and Júnior on the subject, which corroborated to clarify aspects that were previously obscure on the teme. In this way we were able to develop a more informative and descriptive analysis of these aspects that can sometimes go unnoticed. We also seek to show that regardless of how much the self-poet described by Ovid tries to remain faithful to sing the verses considered high in the epic, the dactylic hexameter, is unconditionally inclined to the lovers' verses, the elegiac couplet, hit by the god's arrow. This weapon, contrary to the common use of hurting enemies in battle chants, in the hands of the god starts to incite love or repel it, depending on the charge used however even if it is now inflamed by love, the poet it does not completely abandon its epic pretension and inserts it into the verses dedicated to lovers.