Courtney Lum

Reading Sappho poetry is quite unique from anything else we have read in class. What is so fascinating is the desire and emotion felt by herself for the other person. It is also most intriguing that it is so enigmatic as to what her sexual orientation is which would depict whether she is desiring or merely admiring the subject in question. Also the fact that there is such little known about her and her personal life makes her poetry all the more fascinating and personal. These poems are really the only pieces of information about her and seeing that they are so cryptic yet simple at the same time truly expresses her as a complex woman we may never understand.