After a nap, I am lazy. I raised my wrist, as if I didn't even have the strength to hold the coil.
I still want to sleep. Since individual people are so insignificant in this vast world, why should they wake up?
However, I still woke up, because according to human practice, "people" should be awake in the afternoon, and the closed door can't help but knock. You should dress neatly for others, even if you are a "private person".
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Living in a private space. As the saying goes, be human.
Sitting on the sofa, leafing through a poem by Sappho, waiting for a visitor. The man didn't come, but he read the whole book of poems. In the following time, my whole mind was haunted by Sappho, but I also felt an unexpected enrichment.
Sappho in ancient Greece was very "private" because her life was almost blank. However, according to her works and fragmentary descriptions, later generations used history to "mold" her into a "complete person" for others to think and torture. It makes you feel that as long as you have a name, others will organize your flesh and blood and make you a "person" and a public figure. Therefore, pure "privatization" does not exist.
Reading Sappho gives me the impression that few ancient characters have been shaped into different myths for so long in the history of European and American literature. Her voice has been tampered with, invented, simulated and reconstructed to any extent. People "return" to what they need according to their tastes and desires.
Solon (635- 560 BC), a Greek legislator close to the time of Sappho, heard his nephew sing Sappho's poems at the reception and liked them very much. He immediately asked his nephew to teach him. A friend asked him why he was in such a hurry. He said, "If I learn, I can die without regret."
Miguel (about 100 BC) used flowers to describe poetry in the preface of The Greek Poems. He praised Sappho's poems: Although there are not many, they are all roses. Historian Dionysus (BC 1 century) praised the style of Sappho's poems and commented: "Always choose the most beautiful and harmonious words, pursue the melodious syllables, and achieve beautiful and touching results."
These people are all gentlemen, and they all have dignified reasons and interests. They only kept the poetess's poetic beauty, but were not interested in her life experience. At this time, Sappho has a sacred realm, which is elegant.
In China, the first person to introduce Sappho was Zhou Zuoren. 19 14 He wrote an article in China's Novels, saying: "Love and prose (Sappho's poems) are equivalent ... like the beauty of a butterfly dress, people can't stop catching it." In the eyes of China's old-school literati, Sappho is not only a "Confucian", but also an out-of-touch immortal.
It seems that people who pay attention to "spirit" have similar tastes in the East and the West, at least they are interlinked.
However, decoding under the guidance of another interest is different. Sappho is not only "humble" and "lowly", but also a symbol of "dirty" and "abnormal".
There is a theory that Sappho's works are actually the integration of oral literature, because she not only doesn't know poetry, but even doubts whether she can read. Therefore, "Sappho" is just a symbol, which has nothing to do with "Sappho's poems".
Because Sappho organized a girls' poetry school to teach unmarried girls the art of poetry, intimate singing scenes were also depicted by pottery paintings, and because her poems showed special enthusiasm for women, some people thought that Sappho had abnormal interests and was a homosexual lover. Ann Carlson wrote in her newly translated preface to Sappho: "We only know that Sappho loves women as much as music. Shall we call it a day? " This is implying playing hard to get with ulterior motives. Because of its fuzziness, people's curiosity about Sappho's "body shape" is aroused more strongly, and the beauty of the poetess "Butterfly Clothes" is also lost in the dust.
Later, Sappho's "autumn" flavor became stronger. People attribute Sappho's death to love for a insignificant person. This man is a fisherman who gets nothing. His name is faun. He is ignorant and dissolute. His only qualification is good skin. The famous comedian Minand (about 342 BC-292 BC) wrote A Woman from Lucas, saying that Sappho threw herself into the sea from Lucas Cliff for her hopeless love for the god of agriculture and animal husbandry. In Ovid's poems, Sappho's self-lost "commitment" is vividly rendered:
I have loved hundreds of people-sinful love-but now,
Your enemy, who once belonged to everyone, now belongs to you alone.
This kind of inner monologue written by a male writer seems to be more sad and attractive than the broken fragments of a female poet. In my opinion, it is actually just a psychology of killing a husband: a woman's meanness is a man's happiness; The meanness of talented women is a feast for men!
In the second century, when Sappho died nearly 800 years ago, and the limited records became more vague, people forgot even the minimum scruples and simply interpreted her as what they hoped-Sappho was "ugly, dark and short", and the injustice in people's hearts was completely subsided. The ugliness of this poetess is even comparable to the mental retardation of ordinary people.
From Shafu, I deeply realized that the so-called "human appearance", especially the "human appearance" of public figures, is shaped and deduced by everyone according to their own standards and imagination, and has nothing to do with the true colors of the characters.
According to the historical customs of ancient Greece and Sappho's personal situation, Sappho is indeed a "person", which seems to be like this-
Sappho's work is called Song and Poetry, not for reading, but for singing. The ancient Greek poems after Homer's epic were sung with lyre accompaniment, which is also the origin of the word lyric. Singing is usually divided into chorus and solo. The general characteristics of solo are short body, simple syllables and personalized style. Most of Sappho's works are solos, and then mixed with intimate tones, forming a kind of meter called "Sappho style" by later generations.
Because it is a "song poem", of course, most of the works are published in the form of "singing", so it is also spread because of the singing skills of fans. Some of them, in order to resist forgetting, recorded it in words. It is said that Sappho is illiterate because it is difficult for people to read her handwriting. Another reason is the difficulty of writing. The words at that time were written on a special material called "reed paper". This is a scarce paper, and this is a frugal Sappho, so it is difficult to use. However-
Reed paper, Sappho songs and poems.
How beautiful this image is! I was drunk before I bowed my head.
After the reed paper was dug out of the grave, due to the wind erosion of time, even if it was carefully uncovered, it would be broken one by one, and Sappho's poems would be destroyed. There are intermittent blanks in the poem, so it jumps and falls, just like babbling in love, which needs to be guessed with your heart. This unintentional deformity was actually "popularized" by Pound as a doctrine, that is, imagism. Accidental historical accident is regarded as a well-planned modern aesthetics, which casts an endless mystery on Sappho.
When it comes to the relationship between Sappho and unmarried women, it is still related to the nature of poetry. Young girls all like singing, and the intimate melody resonates with their heartbeat. This is an "illegal enthusiasm". Groups and individuals hypnotized by the system and tradition are not used to it and are naturally considered "abnormal".
Perhaps this interpretation is also a self-righteous misunderstanding. Fortunately, Sappho realized all kinds of misunderstandings before she died. She wrote in a poem-often/those/who are gentle with me/who hurt me the most. The injury did not destroy her confidence in mankind. Her gentle heart added something more tenacious. She said, "beautiful people, I will never change my opinion of you."