Research Paper On Sappho

“You may forget but let me tell you this; someone will think of us in the future”(Top 25 Quotes). This line was stated by Sappho one of the world's first poets who originated in lesbos and one that indeed was thought of in the future (Meet Sappho). She shows that something so small now could mean a lot more in the distant future. Infact people still talk about sappho and her information for writing. Research shows us that sappho acquired information for her poems by her rejected love life, everyday events in greek life, and the gods of ancient times. First of all throughout Sappho’s life, she has always had a rejected love life. For example in poem fragment number 30 she talks about her suffering throughout the poem(Poetry Foundation) . She describes the feeling as “bittersweet” love and she didn't know what to do or how to escape the feeling. Next in Poem 105c she compares her beloved to a flower trampled on a path (Poetry Foundation) . She uses a flower to show how weak she was when she was in love for him
First in poem fragment one she wrote a hymn to aphrodite (Poetry Foundation). It isn't exactly known why this was written but statistics show it could be to honor the gods because they were a huge part of ancient life. Next, Sappho shows how important the gods were by honoring hesperus in “Most Beautiful Of All the Stars”(Most Beautiful of all the stars). In her poem she says “you bring the sheep, you bring the goat, you bring the mother back to her child” showing that he is an important object to the people. Lastly she had to honor the gods to help the society out (Poets.org). In ancient life it wasn’t just about one person it was about the society in a whole and since they believed the gods had the power to do anything she had to honor them to get the results that they wanted. Sappho didn't just think about herself she had the entire society in mind when she wrote her