Initially I think I was drawn to this fragment because of how conversational it feels. Yet if you had a desire for good or beautiful thingsĪnd your tongue were not concocting some evil to say,īut rather you would speak about what is just The fragment seems mostly to deal with shame and reads:
However, I found myself drawn to fragment 137 on page 279. While I found that many of the fragments were beautiful and hauntingly evocative, I couldn’t find meaning in lists of words and broken phrases.
If Not, Winter is Anne Carson’s translation of the fragments of Sappho’s poetry in which a wide range of human emotion and experience are reflected.Īs someone who doesn’t like reading or analyzing poetry very much to begin with, I found the fragmented nature of this collection especially difficult to deal with and understand.
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