![]() ![]() An important observation here is that especially vivid and important feelings for the author are brought out separately in each stanza (Wisner 2021). Sappho puts her poems in a variety of complex metrical forms.Īnalyzing one of the poems by the poet, it is worth paying attention to the way Sappho uses language to express her feelings of love. Sappho’s muse is full of strong, sometimes agonizing passion she calls for love, graceful beauty, for the sun. Initially, the corpus of her works, according to antique sources, consisted of seven books, most of which in their form related to monodic (solo) lyric poetry written in complex poetic measures, the unit of which was not a line but a stanza. ![]() The collection of her surviving poems consists of more than 200 fragments, only a small part of which contains complete texts. Sappho wrote wedding songs, hymns and other melodic poems. It is necessary to analyze one of Sappho’s poems in order to understand the relationship between love and the poetic language used by the writer. Love in Sappho’s poems has exceptional emotional power. Sappho expresses love as a passionate feeling, which deprives speechlessness, which penetrates the body from head to toe and makes a woman powerless. The semantic load of the poems of the poetess gives an opportunity to take a closer look at the woman’s attitude to love. ![]()
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