Horace 31

Question 1

Who is this poem about?

Answer 1

nobody in general just about love and old age and youth

Question 2

overmuch

Answer 2

too much

Question 3

inimical

Answer 3

like a criminal

Question 4

lugubrious

Answer 4

complaining

Question 5

Tibullus, dont grieve overmuch to recall inimical Glycera, dont keep on declaiming lugubrious verses querying why, faith broken, a younger man outshines you

Answer 5

stop complaining, Tibullus that you love Glycera but she loves a man younger than you

Question 6

love for Cyrus scorches Lycoris known for her little forehead; Cyrus inclines to waspish Pholoe; but sooner shall she-goats go with Apulian wolves

Answer 6

Examples of Lycoris loves Cyrus but Cyrus loves Pholoe which is never going to happen

Question 7

than Pholoe err in shabby indiscretion

Answer 7

Pholoe never going to love Cyrus

Question 8

This is Venus’ way: her cruel humour is pleased to subject to her yoke of bronze incompatible bodies and minds

Answer 8

Ovid poems- Venus playing about with peoples emotions even when they are not suited

Question 9

detained in pleasant chains

Answer 9

lover as a slave

Question 10

Even I, when a better love sought me was detained in pleasant chains by Myrtale a one-time slave-girl more stormy than Adriatic waves rolling round to Calabria

Answer 10

Horace’s own experience: Horace imprisoned- he loves Myrtale what was Myrtale’s personality? was she moody/ snappy/ irrational

Question 11

more stormy

Answer 11

Myrtale is moody/ snappy/ irrational

Question 12

What is the main message of this poem?

Answer 12

That love can be cruel just because you love somebody that doesnt mean they are going to love back; love is not logical

Question 13

What are themes that were mentioned in this poem that have been mentioned in other poems?

Answer 13

-youth
-yoke (Ovid)
-lover as a slave (Catullus)
-slave vocab
-nature & storm relating to women