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Unit 3, Lecture 1: Lyric Fires:

Unit 3, Lecture 1: Lyric Fires:. Sappho and Catullus. Brief Background on Both. Widely Separated by time and geography Greek poet Sappho born on Lesbos, ca 630 B.C. Roman poet Catullus lived 84-54 B.C. United in subject matter, lyrical intensity, and classical restraint of verse.

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Unit 3, Lecture 1: Lyric Fires:

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  1. Unit 3, Lecture 1: Lyric Fires: Sappho and Catullus

  2. Brief Background on Both • Widely Separated by time and geography • Greek poet Sappho born on Lesbos, ca 630 B.C. • Roman poet Catullus lived 84-54 B.C. • United in subject matter, lyrical intensity, and classical restraint of verse

  3. The Fiery Fragments of Sappho • Fragmentary Sappho • Burning Sappho • Sappho who “loved and sung” • A look at ‘Like the Very Gods” (Based on Nort.7th; Click HERE for Norton 8th ed.) • Stanza 1: naked expression of jealous longing • Stanza 2: spirit-breaking results of another’s joy • Stanzas 3 and 4: spreading symptoms of love denied • Did you notice • A precise intensity? • Love as a matter of life and death?

  4. Catullus: “I Love and I Hate” • Catullus as a slave of love • The “Lesbia” poems: the delights, doubts, and despair of love • Poem 5: Love’s delights • Poem 109: Hopeful doubt • Poem 72: Angry Despair • Things to notice • Like Sappho, Keen, lyrically precise observations on the varied symptoms of love • Like Sappho: A brilliant discipline of form upon a wild chaos of emotions.

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