![]() The middle line, “quick sparrows over the black earth,” doesn’t really add any new information. Here, her use of adjectives and repetition helps transform a moment in the plot into a beautiful image all its own. In focusing on the broader themes of Sappho’s work, it’s sometimes easy to overlook the moments of simple beauty in her poems. Whipping their wings down the sky” Fragment 1 lines 12-14 ![]() For Sappho, the divisions between mortal and god are less interesting than the intimacy between them. Again, Sappho suggests that she and the goddess are actually similar characters. Aphrodite’s last question, beginning “Who, O Sappho,” is an apostrophe, paralleling Sappho’s address to the goddess at the beginning of the poem. By seamlessly moving from one voice to the next, Sappho suggests that she and the goddess are mirrors of one another. ![]() The next question begins in Aphrodite’s voice, the goddess with the power to “persuade” the object of Sappho’s affection. In the first question posed in the stanza, the “I” is “Sappho,” the heartsick speaker. ![]() ![]() In this stanza, Sappho uses a shifting speaker to describe the relationship between herself and Aphrodite. Sappho, is wronging you?” Fragment 1 lines 17-20 ![]()
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