Catullus Poetry

This week in class we read Catullus’ poetry. His poetry is full of both strong and outrageous emotions, but is full of humor as well. We read a lot of poems that were regarding Lesbia, Catullus’ love, but all of his poetry is not about her. His poetry lyrics are about both love and desire, which makes it similar to Sappho poetry, but I found more Catullus poetry to be obscene, and have some anger in it, whereas I found much of Sappho poetry somewhat perverted. Much of his poetry is critical, and its interesting that he likes to makes fun of people and embarrass them. The poetry of Catullus, (and Sappho) is different from most poetry I’ve read before. It was interesting to read a bunch of poems that were all somewhat related because the connections made it like a story.