loeb 96 Flashcards
what is the name of loeb 96
often she turned her thoughts here
what is the significance of sapphos use of past tense in the first line
theme of memory
what quote shows sappho using language of elevation
she honoured you as if you were a goddess
what is the significance of gendered pronouns in ‘she honoured you as if you were a goddes’
presents femaile homoerotic relationships
what quote presents sappho using sibilance
the light spreads over the salty sea
what quote presents sappho comparing the subject to cosmic imagery
like the rosy-fingured moon
what quote presents sappho using the theme of fertility in nature? allusion to sexual imagery?
the flowery fields
what is the significance of sappho using a wide vocab of flora? (roses, chervil, the flowering melitot /bloom-tricolon of flowers)
if flowers are metaphors for girl then there is variety in both flowers and girls
what are roses associated with
aphordite
what is the significance of “bloom”
as a flower blooms it will also die, flowers as with the bloom of maidenhood, are also temporary so there is also a sadness to the metaphor
what quote presents the overwhelming power of love
she remembers gentle atthis and the longing consumes her flighty soul!
