Ovid: The Love Poems Literary Elements

The action in the poem "Love And War" is told from the perspective of a third-person objective point of view.

The poem "On Fidelity" is written in palindrome form.

The narrator compares love to war in the poem "Love And War". This comparison has the purpose of transmitting the idea that while love can bring happiness and joy, it can also be the source of unimaginable pain.

We find alliteration in the lines "In summer's heat and mid-time of the day,/ To rest my limbs upon a bed I lay," in the poem "In Summer's Heat".

One common ironic idea which can be found in almost all of the poems in the collection is the idea that while love can cause a lot of pain, people will continue to pursue it no matter the consequences they have to suffer.

Meditative poems on love.

The action in the poem "In Summer's Heat" takes place during the summer in the narrator's room.

The tone used in the poems is a neutral one.

In most of the poems the protagonist is the narrator and the antagonist is the unfaithful lover.

The major conflict in "Magic" is between reality and perception.

The poem "In Summer's Kiss" reaches its climax when the lover kisses the narrator.

The title of the poem "Disappointment" foreshadows that way in which the narrator will talk about the woman in the poem in a negative way.

In the poem "On Fidelity" the narrator claims in the first line he did not expect his lover to remain faithful to him. This is, however, an understatement because the narrator later admits he was pained to find out his lover cheated on him.

N/A

The term "prayer" is used in the poem "Disappointment" as a general term to make reference to the carnal desires the woman had towards the narrator.

We find a personification in "Disappointment" in the line "greedy kisses".

We have a hyperbole in the line "cross the glowering mountains, the rivers swollen with storm" in the poem "Love and War".

We have onomatopoeia in the line "screaming from the hills" in the poem "Magic".