Powerful Fragments by Sappho (written 2600 years ago!)

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Today we are talking about BOOKS! |Specifically, this penguin classics book full of Sappho fragments. I was blown away when I first learned about this incredible writer, and the more I read the more I am thrilled by her exciting words about femininity, love, desire, war, family and education. She spoke truths and about concepts which would lead to heated conversations 2600 years later. Here I have collated (which is the word I was looking for in the video haha) a list of quotes and fragments which I found particularly powerful and moving. Enjoy!
If you want to learn more about Sappho, I've left some links below which may interest you.
Ellie-Jean
MORE ABOUT SAPPHO
Sappho Biography: www.britannica.com/biography/...
About Sappho: www.poetryfoundation.org/poet...
Gender, love and sex: What can we learn from the Ancient Greek Poet Sappho: • Gender, love and sex: ...
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[@aaronpoochigian8113]

Thank you for making this video. I am the translator of the book. You read the poems beautifully. I am grateful that you have discovered her.

[@Jay-du1ms]

[@chatgpt4135]

Sappho's words came true "U may forget this but let me tell u, someone in some future time will think of us"
At leas today, world has started it's first step to recognise same gender romantic love and think of Sappho's poems with respect

[@frogsarekewl7688]

i adore sappho this was really fun to listen to.

[@megannewell2133]

i wrote my own (lesbian) feelings down as if they were a poem
im not a great writer but i had to get feelings out so here you go
a fair lady in the far east has caught my eye. her laugh is beautiful, and i wish she could be the one for me. even if she has been struck the same by me, our love is forbidden. why must Aphrodite strike her as my first love, i ponder late at night, wishing to hear the music that is her voice. i worry that she does not feel likewise, and i am holding on too tight. she thinks she is the furthest from the earth, but to me she is the brightest star i see. she speaks to me of her insecurities and dysphoria as i stare back at my reflection through the screen that is to be our destiny. i wish to fall through the screen and be able to fill her with the warmness her words of comfort give me. i can hear her smile and see her laugh. her beauty is immeasurable.

[@maeganaphrodite5861]

Omg I love this so much🩷 I'm an aspiring poet and I've been having a crush on this girl and your poem was super relatable and our feelings and situation are quite similar !!

[@robertjackson1058]

Thanks so much for explaining I'm taking college classes world literature 1 and Sappho's poem and fragments is an assignment I need more understanding to complete it correct again thanks. Miss you mom 07/27/2020

[@sashashashashaaa]

Loved this, thank you!

[@Amylase1000]

Thank you for making this video. I am considering to buy the same book you read with Sappho's poems.

[@Hecateofcrossroads]

My favorite poem of hers is the marriage song of Hector and andromache

[@rbrtptrck]

Thank you for sharing your enthusiasm for The Poetess. I have no doubt that she would have adored you. I write many poems about her and many "as" her, always remembering how she said "These words, which are only breath, will live." I hope to live as a sort of footnote to her. I see she lives in you.

[@millaraytrutnau5965]

i love sappho! and it was super fun listen your thoughs about her poems!

[@prajakta8609]

I'm living for the 1989 album in the background

[@bellamckinnon8655]

This was amazing, thank you so much!! I need to add this to my to-read list, it's not enough just reading what I can from online lol. Great video!

[@sketchandhk9832]

❤️

[@elianedarcy7562]

i loved this thank you so much

[@pagano60]

Check out the Sappho translations by Mary Barnard, first published in 1958 by the University of California Press. Barnard's translations don't accentuate the fragmentary nature of the poems, like other translations do, but they do play with the absences, enticing the reader to wonder what has been lost. It's the first Sappho translation I read and still my favorite.

[@amfortas]

Sappho, as a romantic lesbian, would be disgusted at modern "queer theory". She adores femininity and womanhood, she didn't "deconstruct" or "critique" it like modern feminists do.