Monday, November 30, 2009

Peotry of Catullus

Unlike Sappho's poetry, Catullus' peoms were much easierly written and much simpler.
Some of his peoms are about his friend or to his friends, erotic poems indicating homosexual and lesbianism (probably inspired or influenced by Sappho's Lesbos), and about nature. And yet, some poems are way too simple to even understand the intension of Catullus's purpose of writing the peom unlike very descriptive peoms written by Sappho's. It's very interesting that back in the time, sexual things were very sensitive subjects and both Sappho and Catullus both mention in depth riskying themselves in public. I think poetry is really fascinating genre of literature since it have tell many things with short passages.

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