Beautiful, beautiful language! but I didn't know quite what to make of this text as some poem fragments are literally only a few words long. The language is very sensuous, evocative and communicates embodied experiences very well. By that, I mean the very real physical sensations one feels even though the cause is psychic (e.g. when one is longing for another, when one is happy, sad, anger). The emotions expressed appear timeless despite the poetry written many moons ago.
After class thoughts: A classmate pointed out that Sappho's simple fragments, incomplete as they are, provide very rich descriptions of what life was like at the time (at least as experienced by someone of Sappho's class, education and gender). I confess that I hadn't given this much thought until this was mentioned in class.
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