sappho fragments Flashcards
fragment 1, aphrodite, goddess of the embroidered throne
weaver of wiles
queen I beg you (kletic poem)
come to me again now queen, release me
fragment 2, come to me, leave Crete behind!
and sleep flows down from the trembling leaves(metaphor)
(religious imagery) holy temple, altars, smoking incense
fragment 16, the most beautiful sight in the whole world
a group of cavalry, infantry, fleet of ships (primael, tricolon)
I think it’s the one you love (subverts Homer, transsgression)
gleaming face, soldiers with weapons (parallel)
Helen, the most beautiful woman on earth (ubiquitous example)
fragment 17, come queen Hera
Help me as you helped in the past (establishes a relationship)
come beside me! (exclamation, kletic poem)
many victories at Troy (subverts Homer, showing her well read)
fragment 24a, You will remember
when we were young (nostalgic)
you will remember (who?)
fragment 30, may the maidens sing
your bride, adorned with violets (nature topoi)
clear-voiced nightingale
fragment 31, he is as blessed as a god
I am greener than grass
sweat pours over me, a tremor, seizes me all over (visceral imagery, tricolon)
strikes terror into the heart in my breast
he seems to me equal to a god
fragment 47, love shook my soul
love shook my soul (chaos)
like a wind buffeting oak trees on a mountain (nature, exposure, similie)
fragment 49, I used to love you Atthis
I thought you were like a clumsy little girl
I used to love you
fragment 55, when you die
no one will ever remember you
no share of the roses from the Pieran muses (subverts Homer)
fragment 57, what farm girl
charms your mind? (rhetorical- disbelief)
ragged dress over her ankles
fragment 81, put garlands around your lovely hair, O Dika!
put garlands around your hair O Dika
the blessed graces favour the beautifully floral over the ungarlanded
fragment 94, honestly I want to die
weeping, she was leaving me
O sappho, I do not want to leave you
remember all the wreaths
violets, roses, crocuses
and on a soft bed, you satisfied your desire
fragment 96, often she turned her thoughts here
like the rosy fingered moon
the light spreads over the salty sea and the flowery fields
roses, the tender chervil and the flowering melilot bloom
she remembers gentle Atthis
longing consumes her flighty soul
fragment 98a, my mother said
it was all the rage to tie up her hair with a purple headband
fragment 102, sweet mother!
I cannot weave my web
I am smitten by a boy because of slender Aphrodite
fragment 104a, Hesperus!
you bring back (sheep, goats and the child to its mother” (x3) –> anaphora
fragment 105a, just like the sweet apple
sweet apple reddening at the highest height
missed by the apple pickers
they just couldn’t reach
fragment 105c, just like the hyacinth
hyacinth on a mountain
trodden by the feet of the sheperds
on the ground, a purple flower
fragment 112, lucky bridegroom
lucky bridegroom
you have the girl of your dreams
honey sweet, love is poured
aphrodite has honoured you above all others
fragment 114, virginity
where have you gone?
i will come to you no more
no more will I come (chiasmus)
fragment 121, if you care about me
find the bed of a younger woman
for I never want to be the older one in a relationship
fragment 130, love which loosens the limbs
love which loosens the limbs
once again shakes me
bitter sweet
invincible creature
fragment 131, atthis the thought of me
the thought of me now repulses you
you run off to Andromeda
fragment 132, I have a beautiful daughter
resembles the sight of golden flowers
I love her more than all of Lydia
fragment 137, I want to say something
a sense of shame holds me back
your tongue was not about to spit out some hurtful remark
