loeb 105a

Question 1

what is the name of loeb 105a

Answer 1

just like the sweet apple

Question 2

what quote presents sappho introducing an extended simile likening virginity to an apple - link with aphrodite and female sexual desire

Answer 2

just like the sweet apple redening at the highest height

Question 3

what is the significance of reddening

Answer 3

connotes menstruation/female maturity
do not touch it until its read?

Question 4

what literary technique is used in “the highest height of the highest branch”

Answer 4

superlative emphasises the distance of the apple compounded by the line break, enjambment

Question 5

what quote presents sappho being snobbish

Answer 5

‘missed by the apple pickers’ ‘they just couldnt reach’

Question 6

expand on why sappho sounds like a snob

Answer 6

sappho rounds off the virginity poem with an element of snobbery implying the apple pickers are not good enough
alternatively it could be simple a metaphor for men as a whole
virginity should be protected is a patriarchal value

Question 7

how could we read this poem as sinister

Answer 7

perhaps the apple pickers are
systematically harvesting the apples for their own use