Sappho
For your second paper, please write 5 pages (double-spaced) and focus on one work
primarily in your analysis. Please don’t use secondary sources; this is about developing
your analysis and thought process.
Below are some prompts to consider, but please feel free to come up with your own
idea or some variation of what you find here; just come and talk to me first.
1. Time Crunch- Many of the works that we have read manipulate time in telling
ways in order to construct their narrative and connect to a larger whole, whether
in the relationship between individual narrative, generations, and large swaths of
time (Genesis, Histories) or in the active play with time to tell a story (Odyssey,
Sappho, Song of Solomon). Pick a work, or even a character within the work, and
analyze how time and change affect our understanding of it.
2. Who are You?- Establishing identity, recognizing another, and seeking to belong
are constant features in the works that we have read. You might look at narratives
of testing, disguise, and identity in the Odyssey or Genesis, playing with voices in
Song of Solomon, or cultural ties that bind in the Histories. Consider how issues
of identity and belonging inform one of the works that we have read.
3. I Think, Therefore I Want- Desire informs much of what we have read, whether
it be desire for material riches, for happiness, for understanding, for erotic
fulfillment. Consider how desire plays a part in one of the works we have read,
perhaps the relationship between knowledge and desire (Genesis), the natural
world and desire (Song of Solomon), or political and individual desires
(Histories).
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Sappho
The time and the circumstances under which Sappho wrote her poems and the changes that have taken place over time, with regards to her artistic works, has greatly affected our understanding of the issues being talked about in the poem. Sappho succeeded in writing many poetic works; some can be traced whereas others cannot be traced in their original form. These works of poems have been rewritten and translated by various authors. One of the texts that best represents the poetic influences of love at the time is poem number 31. …
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