Exile- the condition of being cut off from one's homeland- may take many different forms. The theme of exile changes throughout these different poems, from seeing it as enlightenment to seeing as more cruel than death.
Tristia- Ovid, Translated by LR Lind
Book 10
---"They carry on their relations by means of their common language
While I am reduced to communication by making signs."
---"I'm understood by no one"
- Ovid is describing his fall out with his love city of Rome which he has been exiled from.
---"Year after year, nothing familiar, nothing"
- Tu Fu is expressing the peacefulness he has found while he has fled to the country after being exiled, which has allowed him to become a poet.
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