Argues that Ovid 's longing for Rome in his exile poetry is similar to that of a spurned lover for the inaccessible object of his love. Yet the speaker of the exile poetry does not employ the advice of the « Remedia amoris » on how to fall out of love : on the contary, his refusal or inability to do so is played out in the « Tristia » and « Epistulae ex Ponto » as a self-referential response to the « Remedia ».
