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yiuve's review
I dont think its up to me to rate this.
It beautiful and i wish we had more of it left.
"Once again Love, that loosener of limbs,
bittersweet and inescapable, crawling thing,
seizes me."
It beautiful and i wish we had more of it left.
"Once again Love, that loosener of limbs,
bittersweet and inescapable, crawling thing,
seizes me."
melcanread's review
emotional
inspiring
3.0
The opening of the book helps us understand all the historical context we will need in order to help us understand Sappho just a little more. It was very much appreciated given that I knew little to nothing about Sappho besides that she was a lesbian from Lesbos. A lesbian Lesbian, if you will.
I loved Sappho's prose, how she yearned for the woman she loved and mourned when they left her willingly or other otherwise. Even in her most fragmented pieces where there was only one word per line, you could really feel her anguish and heartbreak, or her happiness and just how in love she really was. You understood that her relationship to Aphrodite was complex, and you could truly feel her faith wavering with certain works.
I loved and appreciated the fragment notes. But I do wish that they were placed after their respective fragments rather than clumped all at the end, as it was an inconvenience to keep flicking back to the translations to remember exactly which one was being referred to. I do also think that some of these notes were unnecessary as they either provided nothing new, or insights into Sappho's work that already was obvious. This was the reason I gave the book three stars.
I do wish more of the fragments were intact, though. I want to know what she said.
I loved Sappho's prose, how she yearned for the woman she loved and mourned when they left her willingly or other otherwise. Even in her most fragmented pieces where there was only one word per line, you could really feel her anguish and heartbreak, or her happiness and just how in love she really was. You understood that her relationship to Aphrodite was complex, and you could truly feel her faith wavering with certain works.
I loved and appreciated the fragment notes. But I do wish that they were placed after their respective fragments rather than clumped all at the end, as it was an inconvenience to keep flicking back to the translations to remember exactly which one was being referred to. I do also think that some of these notes were unnecessary as they either provided nothing new, or insights into Sappho's work that already was obvious. This was the reason I gave the book three stars.
I do wish more of the fragments were intact, though. I want to know what she said.
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