Sappho

I think there is evidence that the poems of Sappho are written from her perspective because she puts her own name into the poem. This would suggest that she is the one feeling all of these emotions that she puts in her poems. However, it is possible that because men were dominating the arts world at the time that she wanted to make her poems fit in more and was writing from the perspective of a man. She might have been trying to find out how a man feels about a woman and that was the inspiration to her poetry. She is a really interesting poet because she is not afraid to say what she thinks even if it might make other people uncomfortable.