To the one I love, Sappho expressed the pain of losing his girlfriend.
1. The original text of the poem "To Be Loved".
He is as happy and carefree as a god. He can stare at you with his eyes, and he can sit and listen to your chatter, just like music. When I hear your laughter, my heart beats, beating like terror in my heart; as soon as I look at you, I immediately lose the ability to speak; my tongue becomes dull; the devouring emotions burn like fire. My whole body.
It was dark all around me; thunder was in my ears; my mind was pounding. Cold sweat dripped all over my body; a slight tremor passed through my limbs, which were whiter than winter grass; in my eyes, I only saw death and madness.
2. Appreciation of the poem "To Be Loved".
Almost the whole poem is about her various sensory experiences in pain. She is good at selecting the most prominent and profound symptoms of her feelings and combining them into one, vividly expressing her love and love. Rich and complex emotions such as jealousy, resentment and even madness have achieved a very strong synaesthesia effect, making readers feel sincerity in the heat, solemnity in the unrestrainedness, and seem to be immersed in the scene.
Introduction to "To Be Loved" and Sappho:
1. Introduction to "To Be Loved".
"To Be Loved" is a typical "Sapphic" poem, with four lines in one section, and the whole poem consists of four stanzas. In the first section, the personal pronouns "he" and "you" are easier to understand. They should be described from a third-person perspective, showing a scene of a man and a woman in love. The impatient chattering in the past is reflected in the lover's voice. More beautiful than the most beautiful music.
Following the second section, the personal pronoun "he" disappears and the pronoun "I" appears. It seems that this is a sharp change in the narrative perspective, with the second-person perspective replacing the third-person perspective.
2. Introduction to Sappho.
Sappho (about 630 BC to about 560 BC) was a famous female lyric poet in ancient Greece. She wrote many love poems, wedding songs, hymns to gods, inscriptions, etc. throughout her life. . It is generally believed that she was born into a noble family on the island of Lesbos.
It is said that her father liked poetry, and under his father's influence, Sappho also became obsessed with poetry writing. She was the first poet to describe personal love and loss.