loeb 31

Question 1

what is loeb 31 called

Answer 1

he is blessed as a god

Question 2

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

Answer 2

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

Question 3

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

Answer 3

your sweet voice.. your charming laughter

Question 4

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

Answer 4

he dictates how women ought to talk and laugh

Question 5

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

Answer 5

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

Question 6

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

Answer 6

when i see you i can no longer speaj

Question 7

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

Answer 7

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

Question 8

why is it particularly significant she can no. longer speak

Answer 8

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

Question 9

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

Answer 9

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

Question 10

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

Answer 10

a delicate fire runs beneath my skin

Question 11

what literary device is ‘a delicate fire’

Answer 11

oxymoron

Question 12

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

Answer 12

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

Question 13

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

Answer 13

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

Question 14

what quote shows sappho ending the poem with death

Answer 14

i am on the point of death

Question 15

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

Answer 15

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

Question 16

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

Answer 16

finality of ‘the point of death’ statement

Question 17

how does this poem reference homer

Answer 17

homeric heroes often deliver a soliloquy before they die

Question 18

what is the strcture of this poem

Answer 18

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

Question 19

why does loeb 31 exist

Answer 19

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

Question 20

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

Answer 20

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

Question 21

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

Answer 21

raw physicality