4 English: Sappho Lyric QUIZ Notes

IRONY of WILLS

________: even the gods are bound by fate.

Apostrophe

________- when you address someone not there.

Epitaph

________- writing on tombstone.

Threnady

________- a poem of lament [lamenting death of Baukis]

Sappho 1

Ode to Aphrodite

Apostrophe

when you address someone not there

"Weaving wiles"

Sappho knows Aphrodite is MESSY and Dangerous

"Again who must I persuade back into the harness of your love?, soon shell ove even against her will"

this is what Sappho wants Aphrodite to ask her

IRONY of WILLS

even the gods are bound by fate

",and you be my ally"

this is dangerous, because when do you call someone your ally

Sappho

"All is fair in love and war."

Sappho 4

Ode to Anaktoria

Imagery of warfare

army of horsemen, foot-soldiers, fleet

"I say it is whatever on loves"

you love what you love

Sappho 8

Fortune of Gods

This is the MOST impressive poem

physical sensations of love (1st)

Korinna 1

Terpsicore / lovely old tales

Terpsichore

the muse of dance

"White-robed women of Tanagra"

singing to them

Erinna 1

Ode to Bakis

Threnady

a poem of lament [lamenting death of Baukis]

Erinna

serious

Epitaph

writing on tombstone

"But always before… nineteenth year"

[Baukis death]

"Gazing on the distaff"

weaving

"O Hymen"

marriage

Erinna 4

Stere and my sirens

"my father called me Baukis" "family is from Tenos" "my friend Erinna.. Engraved this epigram"

Baukiss ashes are in the urn, the dead body [ashes] belong to Hades, and Erinna wrote the epitaph