![]() ![]() 1.6 - He begs the doorkeeper to let him into the house to see his love. ![]() 1.5 - He describes a visit Corinna, here named for the first time, makes to his rooms.1.4 - He attends a dinner party the poem is mostly a list of secret instructions to his lover who is also attending the party along with her husband.1.3 - He addresses his lover for the first time and lists his good qualities.1.1 - The poet announces that love will be his theme.14 discusses Corinna's disastrous experiment in dyeing her hair and 15 stresses the immortality of Ovid and love poets. ![]() Poems 8 and 9 deal with Corinna selling her love for gifts, while 11 and 12 describe the poet's failed attempt to arrange a meeting. The fifth poem, describing a noon tryst, introduces Corinna by name. Poem 4 is didactic and describes principles which Ovid would develop in the Ars Amatoria. The plot is linear, with a few artistic digressions such as an elegy on the death of Tibullus.īook 1 contains 15 poems the first poem tells of Ovid's intention to write epic poetry which is thwarted when Cupid steals a metrical foot from him, changing his work into love elegy. The Amores are a poetic first person account of the poet's love affair with an unattainable higher class girl, Corinna. ![]()
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