loeb 31 Flashcards

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what is loeb 31 called

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he is blessed as a god

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what quote presents sappho watching on as a man speaks to her lover, elevating him in a melancholic way

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he seems to me equal to a god that man who sits facing you

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what quote shows sappho describing her lovers manners as she talks to a different man

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your sweet voice.. your charming laughter

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how does sapphos description of her lovers manner as she talks to a different man contrast ovid

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he dictates how women ought to talk and laugh

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what quote presents sappho shifting the mood of the poem drastically by describing her anguish at the woman she loves talking to a man

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strikes terror into the heart of my breast
-violent verb, fearful love, sexual invocation

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what quote shows sappho describing herself being tongue tied at the sight of this woman

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when i see you i can no longer speaj

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what literary technique does sappho use when saying she can no longer speak

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the short line ephasising her speechlessness, the full stop at the end of the line and having a line break greatly heightening the impression of silence

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why is it particularly significant she can no. longer speak

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as a poet her identity exists in her words
-to be without words is to be without identity

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how can we tell that sapphos desire is more than a first glance or simple infatuation

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‘when i see you’ shows that she has seen her multiple times

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what quote describes the love as fiery, much like virgil in his ‘aeneid’ perhaps dangerous or all consuming - given that fire is destructive

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a delicate fire runs beneath my skin

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what literary device is ‘a delicate fire’

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oxymoron

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what quote presents the physical symptoms of frustration mimicing the biological symptoms of an orgasm

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and sweat pours over me, and a tremous seizes me all over

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in what different ways could ‘i am greener than grass’ be interprated

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perhaps sexual - with dewy wet grass associated with female arousal
anachronistically (clashing with its time) could be associated with jealousy or naivete

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what quote shows sappho ending the poem with death

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i am on the point of death

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why is it significant that grass is placed on the line above death

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placed below the grass of the previous line to give impression of being buried

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what is the significance of the full stop at the end of the last line

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finality of ‘the point of death’ statement

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how does this poem reference homer

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homeric heroes often deliver a soliloquy before they die

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what is the strcture of this poem

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more structured and complex at the beginning and quickly unravels with the repatition of ‘and’ at the start giving it a string of thought tone
the last three stanzas are one sentance

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why does loeb 31 exist

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ancient literary critic cassius longinus uses it in his work ‘on the sublime’ as a perfect example of how t write about desire

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what does freeman say on the explicit and overwhelming sexuality of loeb 31

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little else in the literature of any age captures the physical sensations of erotic love

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what does jane mcintosh synder say on the erotic elements of loeb 31`

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raw physicality