"The poems of Tibullus in love and hatred of Delia"

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This research deals with the poetry of Tibullus in love and hatred of Delia, using the analytical approach to the poems that dealt with the relationship between the poet Tibullus and his beloved Delia, and Tibullus spoke of Delia's first love in his first book in five poems, the first, second, third, fifth and sixth. In the first poem, Tibullus Delia described more than once the lady or his lady as a slave to her. This is the appeal of the divine lover to the arrogant and authoritarian woman who has a slave and his happiness to live with her better than to leave her alone and travel to participate in the war. The first poem is a model of all the features of the Elegy poetry, which Tibullus added to the love of the countryside and the pastoral life that he preferred and enjoyed and to increase his sense of pleasure in love. Thus, Tibullus focused on the idea of ​​rejecting war and preferring to go to the farm with all its goods and conclude the talk about the countryside and its beauty Stay next to Delia.

In the last poem about Delia, the sixth poem is based on the God of love, which he signed in the trap of a deceptive woman who taught her the art of deception to her husband. He said that he can not hide his feelings towards Delia. He must forgive her whatever she does to her mother's love. As if he had brought them together and allowed him to add his age to the age of her mother to do and he loves Delia because of her blood and concludes his poem, hoping that their love will remain a model guided by any lover.