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I believe Ovid's "Elegy for Tibullus" goes from Grief---> Consolation.  The grief expressed is in large connected to the inhuman feelings possessed by the God's as well.  He is trying to show the misery we as humans must endure as we mourn our losses is leveled with the Gods.  A loss is a loss is a loss... (;  He does this through comparisons and witty placements of lost friends.  For example, "No less was Venus stunned by her Tibullus's death than when the fierce boar smote her lover's thing" (15–16).  Venus lost her son and her past lover and Ovid lost...well, I'm going to say friend with benefits because it sounds like something was going on there.  In the beginning it was so in-your-face with the elaborate details of their losses just hitting you again and again and again that it was just waiting for you to be on the same page of them in their stage of mental funk (depression), middle was more connections to again, make you connect with him whether or not you honestly want to, and the middle it was that time of letting go and realizing that, as cliche as it is, although they're gone pieces of them still remain.  That death is really sort of more suckish and inconvenient than anything because they never really leave.  You just can't have tea parties and yell at Sparta anymore.

-Emilie(: